New Zealand's Electricity Sector: Showing The World How It's Done?
Falling productivity, rising prices, massive corporate profits: Geoff Bertram discusses the lessons of deregulation for NZ's electricity sector.
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Our goal is to contribute to improving New Zealanders’ lives. Our researchers engage with New Zealand’s policy-making process and work with people to make New Zealand a better place environmentally, socially and economically.
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New from the IGPS
Electricity prices unfair
Relief for consumers from unfair electricity prices? Not on the Electricity Price Review's watch, says Geoff Bertram
Policy Quarterly February 2019
This special issue of Policy Quarterly focuses on welfare state reform.
Fewer cows, cleaner rivers
Mike Joy proposes a single answer that addresses all our freshwater and environmental problems: have fewer cows.
Upcoming events
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Apocalypse Cow: Why has Fonterra failed?
Can Fonterra survive -- and should policy makers even care? Industry commentator Peter Fraser explores why the one stop dairy shop dream is over.
Latest commentaries
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The ‘left’ is least trusting of others
The political left have the least trust in New Zealand's institutions, according to the recent IGPS "Who do we trust?" survey, writes Simon Chapple.
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The Wellbeing Budget and what it means for mental health
Olivia Wills considers whether the Wellbeing Budget represents a real move towards addressing New Zealand's urgent mental health needs.