A Black Box Wellbeing Budget: Lessons for the Regions
The Wellbeing Budget was the Government’s first chance to transform the Treasury’s Living Standards Framework into an objective […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
The Census is not completely fixable
Statistics NZ has finally announced that we will get the first tranche of Census 2018 data on September 23 – a mere 566 days after we filled in the forms. But concerns remain with some indicators. Which raises the big questions – what data will be released, and can we trust this census?
Are tourists dissatisfied with hotels and motels?
Guest nights during February 2019 were down 0.4% from a year ago. The culprit was a 3.2% decline […]
Productivity still shite, but hope for the future
New Zealand has a productivity problem. Heck, we even have an entire government agency, the Productivity Commission, dedicated […]
Regional economics expert: Who is Benje Patterson?
Business or pleasure? Who cares. Before getting cosy with someone, you need to get to know what makes […]
Who knows best: businesses or economists?
Economists were surprised yesterday when the Reserve Bank changed tack and put the prospect of an official cash […]
Kiwifruit, plonk and lamb on par with dairy exports!
MPI recently released a bullish set of primary sector export forecasts. But forget MPI’s headline – the big […]
Do we really trust Census 2018?
With 10% of people not filling out Census 2018, will we trust the results? The Census 2018 miscount […]
Be careful reading regional economic headlines
Statistics New Zealand released its regional GDP series yesterday. The data gives a high level snapshot of regional […]
Queenstown Mayor for Minister of Tourism
Queenstown Mayor Jim Boult has announced bold plans for a local referendum on a visitor levy (most likely […]