The school holidays are behind us. Parents may be sighing with relief their dear children are no longer running riot, but many of our visitor destinations are back on tenterhooks as they wait to see whether the initial sugar rush of domestic travel can be sustained.
The outlook for Māori-owned farms is “surprisingly strong”, despite the worldwide impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was what I told Stuff's Susan Edmunds in a recent interview.
The looming closure of Tiwai is a devastating blow for Southland. I spoke with Stuff's Melanie Carroll to put the closure in perspective, against how the rest of Southland's economy is faring amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 lockdown and border closures have hampered business earnings. This article assesses the effects these challenges have had on the retail sector across regional New Zealand and what’s in store for the coming months.
I recently published a report that analyses emerging trends in business births and deaths in Queenstown immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis will challenge the survival of many existing businesses, but the process of change will create opportunities for many new entrepreneurs.
I was recently interviewed by Kerre McIvor on Newstalk ZB about entrepreneurship during lockdown. In the interview I discuss which industries new businesses were in, where they were located, and how these lockdown businesses will support the economic recovery.
People are entrepreneurial in the unlikeliest of situations. Even under COVID-19 lockdown, there were 3,136 businesses started in April 2020 across New Zealand. This article outlines which industries these businesses were in and where in the country people were most likely to start businesses.
The outlook for 2020 is still one of grumpy growth. The economy is likely to continue growing, but in a little bit of a higgledy-piggledy fashion. As I survey the year ahead, I see a fanning of risks on the horizon for 2020.
Business confidence has fallen to its lowest level in a decade. The irony is that the Reserve Bank’s August OCR cut, which was much bigger than market expectations, has spooked businesses rather than boosted them as had been intended.
Jetstar’s withdrawal from the regional market is a blow not just for consumers, but also economic and social development in the provinces.
Questions regarding the future of work have recently focused my attention on understanding the sources of job creation […]
I decided to test whether new or existing businesses are the engine for jobs growth in regional New Zealand. From an economic development perspective, these insights can help inform the extent to which resources should be focused on business attraction or building up resilience of existing enterprises.