The United States has the world’s best universities. At least for now. Read more
1. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY 1.1 This submission on the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No. 2) is made by The New Zealand Initiative (the Initiative), a Wellington-based think tank supported primarily by major New Zealand businesses. Read more
It is hard to feel sorry for Harvard University. For two years running, Harvard has come at the bottom of the free speech rankings according to the Foundation Individual Rights and Expression. Read more
We can learn a lot from newspapers’ Letters to the Editor pages. This week, I had a column in the Stuff newspapers on the Initiative’s proposed fast-track for new supermarkets. Read more
| GDP Quarterly Change: | 0.20% |
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| GDP Annual Change: | -1.02% |
| Inflation: | 2.30% |
| Optimal OCR: | 3.00% |
| Optimal OCR Gap: | -0.50% |
| Forecasted OCR Change: | -0.25% |
