Visit to the Marshall Islands. Listener: 20 October, 2007. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; The Marshall Islands are due north of New Zealand – about eight hours’ flying time on an RNZAF 757. I was there recently on the annual Pacific Mission led by Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters, who takes a team…
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Presented to the Stout Research Centre ‘Research Roundup’ 17 October 2007 Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Growth & Innovation; History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Invited to contribute to this Stout Centre Research Roundup, I was torn between telling you about the project I am working on, and the one which I have just…
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Paper for Combined APSAD and Cutting Edge Addiction Conference 2007 (Aotea Centre, Auckland, New Zealand, 4-7 November 2007). This reports on a contract of SHORE (Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation) at Massey University. Keywords: Health; One area of addiction is gambling. Over the last year SHORE, the Centre for…
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Now is your chance to choose strong local governance. Listener: 6 October, 2007. Keywords: Governance; Political Economy & History; Why are you voting in this month’s local body elections? I’m voting because I believe in the principle of “subsidiarity”, that decisions should be taken at the lowest effective level. That is why I often support…
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I prepared this note on 2 October, 2007, for some colleagues, following a discussion on the relevance of GDP targets. Keywords: Growth & Innovation; As far as I know the only government reference to getting back into the top half of the OECD on a GDP per capita basis is in the Growing…
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This is a note I prepared for some colleagues. written on October 1, 2007. Keywords: Environment & Resources; Governance; Seeking sustainability is like transforming the economy. It is always going on and there is no once in a lifetime policy, although (as for the economic transformation) there are periods of acceleration. …
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