I was fortunate to speak at Economic Development New Zealand's national conference. I shared my experiences of assessing how COVID-19 is affecting local economies and what economic development professionals can do to help understand what is happening in their local area.
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.
Inclusive economic development is about ensuring that nobody is left behind. Not only is culture important for giving people a sense of identity and inclusion, but culture can also play a more direct role in local development.
During March, I will be presenting two courses at locations throughout the country. The courses will cover measuring wellbeing in the regions and how to incorporate wellbeing into applied decision-making frameworks. EDNZ’s World of Learning offers the most affordable, best value training for economic developers ever to be provided in New Zealand.
I am proud to have supported this documentary produced by Storyworks, with funding from NZ on Air. The documentary looks at the human side of Queenstown's severely unaffordable housing.
This article reflects on economic development philosophy, including comparisons between the Provincial Growth Fund and European funds based on personal experience. It is written by Ceri Macleod, who is Economic Development Coordinator at Gore District Council.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently warned that workers across many countries may outlive their savings by a decade or more. Analysing evidence in New Zealand shows we are in a similar boat.
Questions regarding the future of work have recently focused my attention on understanding the sources of job creation […]
I was recently asked to provide comment on a fantastic article by Jo McKenzie-McLean looking at social issues stemming from Queenstown’s housing situation. My comments highlighted evidence of Queenstown’s burgeoning housing problem leading to a commuter belt forming.
Statistics NZ realeased its hotly anticipated Indicators Aotearoa dashboard. The dashboard was supposed to provide more than one hundred indicators of wellbeing, but instead we have been delivered a wireframe - filled with placeholders and patchy actual data.
The buzzword wellbeing is being bandied about left, right and centre. But how do we put this new theory into practice and what will it mean for our regions. This post explores why wellbeing matters, and how you can use wellbeing ideals in an applied policy setting.
The recently released New Zealand General Social Survey (NZGSS) provides a cross-domain perspective of wellbeing. The environmental side […]