Aug 25, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
Dr Ryan Jones and Dr Tom Baker ask if ‘green bonds’ can save us from economic and climate collapse Covid-19 has combined with climate change to create a dual crisis that demands extraordinary financial solutions. Governments around the world, including ours in...
Jul 15, 2020 | COVID-19, Policy Pod
Centre for Supply Chain Management, April 2020 The Macroeconomics of Pandemics — This Time is Different* PRASANNA GAI UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND *The views herein draw on the collective wisdom of many scholars. Prasanna Gai is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University...
Jul 15, 2020 | COVID-19, Events
Europe Institute Webinar, co-hosted by the Public Policy Institute Thursday 23 July 2020, 19:00 NZST ZOOM ADDRESS: https://auckland.zoom.us/j/91623288449 Speakers: Prof. Laura Bear (LSE) Assoc. Prof. Nick Long (LSE) Assoc. Prof. Susanna Trnka (Auckland) Assoc. Prof....
Jul 15, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
By Rob Scollay – What New Zealand must do to play virtual host to APEC next year is something perhaps never attempted before. The rewards could be big. Virtual hosting of 2021 APEC: a rewarding challenge for NZ New Zealand’s confirmation that it will proceed...
Jul 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Policy Commons Blog
By Collin Tukitonga – Dr Collin Tukuitonga draws on New Zealand’s response to Covid-19 to argue for a designated population health agency An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed major shortcomings in the funding...
Jul 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Policy Commons Blog
By Anne Salmond – Michael Woodhouse still can’t provide evidence of his apocryphal ‘homeless man’ staying for free in quarantine. Dame Anne Salmond argues the Opposition and media need to be better in throwing around such claims. It is now 12...
Jul 6, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog, Policy Pod
Recorded 1 July 2020, University of Auckland. As Aotearoa New Zealand began to control its COVID-19 cases, calls began to grow for the creation of a Pacific—and Trans-Tasman—travel bubble. The general concept would see tourism and other travel to resume between...
Jun 30, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
Crown options for Māori media have a colonial “feel and smell” to them, writes the University of Auckland’s Dr Claire Charters Are the Government’s Options for Māori Media unconstitutional, contrary to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, international Indigenous peoples’...
