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MAKING MAJURO

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 of New Zealanders around selected Pacific [...]

20th October 2007 | Comments Closed

WRITING GLOBALISATION AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

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 completed with the [...]

17th October 2007 | Comments Closed

SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS OF GAMBLING

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 Social and Health [...]

7th October 2007 | Comments Closed

PLACE YOUR VOTES

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. [...]

6th October 2007 | Comments Closed

GDP TARGETS

 
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 and Innovative Economy  [...]

2nd October 2007 | Comments Closed

SEEKING SUSTAINABILITY

 
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.
 
Definition
 
Let’s define the sustainability issue as follows
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1st October 2007 | Comments Closed