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Think Big 2.0: The Provincial Growth Fund risks turning into a fiasco
By Alex Penk
This article was written by Alex Penk and Julian Wood, and first published on The Spinoff on 26 February, on…
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Making the Provincial Growth Fund a risk worth taking
By Julian Wood
The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) represents a once in a generation opportunity to support a sustainable future for New Zealand’s…
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Regional Development Policy Paper | A Risk Worth Taking
By Julian Wood
One year into the $3B Provincial Growth Fund, Maxim Institute’s new research A Risk Worth Taking – Ensuring the Provincial…
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Time to take a risk for the regions – Newsroom column
By Alex Penk
To lay out an explanation for the recommendations in our Taking the Right Risks policy paper on regional development, Alex Penk…
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Planning to take the right risks for our regions
By Julian Wood
New Zealand’s Regional Development Minister Shane Jones has a problem. He has three billion dollars and three years to change…
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Key Lessons & Policy Recommendations
By Julian Wood
Drawing together the themes and lessons from the international literature on smart growth and decline policy, we have discerned four…
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What can be done? | Smart Growth 2
By Julian Wood
DISCOVERING DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS BASED ON INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE “Ahipara needs a boost. It needs to grow.” Then he [Malley] smiles….
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What can be done? | Smart Growth One
By Julian Wood
DISCOVERING DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS BASED ON INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE “Ahipara needs a boost. It needs to grow.” Then he [Malley] smiles….
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What can be done? | Smart Growth One
By Julian Wood
DISCOVERING DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS BASED ON INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE “Ahipara needs a boost. It needs to grow.” Then he [Malley] smiles….
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Our insecure future of work
By Kieran Madden
Many pinned Trump’s election and the Brexit vote as being fueled by people’s fear of losing their way of life….
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The regional role of iwi
By Julian Wood
Bill English has made a splash in the last few days, both for his sheep shearing skills and his first-time…
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Growing Aotearoa
By Kieran Madden
Is New Zealand growing better, or worse? Well, it depends on what you look at, of course. Stats New Zealand…
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Does income inequality matter?
Australian economist, now Labour MP, Andrew Leigh spoke at the Sydney Institute recently on the subject of “Why Inequality Matters,…
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The “pro-growth” progressive
The self-proclaimed progressive economist, now Australian Labor MP Andrew Leigh has written an article that strongly outlines the benefits of…
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Tax Discussion Series: Lifting the bucket
By Steve Thomas
Lifting the Bucket: Tax policy and economic growth is the third paper in Maxim Institute’s Tax Discussion Series, a series…
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