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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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….

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….

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….

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…

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…

Does income inequality matter?

Australian economist, now Labour MP, Andrew Leigh spoke at the Sydney Institute recently on the subject of “Why Inequality Matters,…

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…

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…