Reports & Media

Every parent wants to give their child the best start in life – but when it comes to schooling, does money buy success? Read more

At the end of this week, New Zealand is back in a situation we hoped to have left behind. With Auckland in lockdown and the country on alert, Covid-19 is back. Read more

With the number of Auckland’s Covid cases increasing exponentially, there is every chance the Government will extend the city’s Alert Level 3 lockdown for several weeks. Read more

Even with the best of practices at the border, eventually something will get through. And something now has – though officials are still trying to figure out whether it came in with a passenger, or through refrigerated transport. But better practices at the border would reduce the risk. Read more

Turkey is not the country you might expect to read about in a series of columns called “Spotlight on Europe.” Read more

Presented as an engineering or operations management problem, it would seem almost impossible to solve. Read more

Over the past fortnight the border issue troubling politicians and the media has been whether Kiwis returning from overseas should contribute to the costs of their managed isolation. Read more

There must be a German word for it: That feeling when you are enjoying something that is just not quite right. Not a guilty pleasure, more an incorrect one. Read more

Last week, The New Zealand Initiative released a new research report: Pharmac: The Right Prescription? Read more

The problem isn’t just that the Provincial Growth Fund is poorly managed with slipshod standards and politically-driven spending decisions. The problem is that it exists at all. Read more