Media Releases
Navigating an uncertain future
05 Mar 2012 | Media Releases
In this one hour film Rick Boven and Lillian Grace explain how New Zealand can improve its preparedness for the effects of long-term global environment trends.
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Think Tanks to Merge
16 Dec 2011 | Media Releases
The New Zealand Business Roundtable and the New Zealand Institute confirmed today that the boards of the two organisations had agreed to combine forces to form a new, independent public policy think tank.
NZahead Report Card Update - October 2011
26 Oct 2011 | Media Releases
The New Zealand Institute has today released its update to the interactive web-based NZahead report card assessing New Zealand’s performance on 16 economic, environmental and social measures.
New Zealand competitiveness restricted by innovation performance
07 Sep 2011 | Media Releases
New Zealand has ranked 25th in the latest World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness report, down from 23rd last year.
Two proposals to reduce youth disadvantage
19 Jul 2011 | Media Releases
The latest discussion paper from the New Zealand Institute More ladders, fewer snakes: Two proposals to reduce youth disadvantage, investigates the plight of our youth and identifies two powerful interventions to improve outcomes.
Tony Carter Appointed Chair of the New Zealand Institute
10 Dec 2010 | Media Releases
The New Zealand Institute has announced the appointment of Tony Carter as Chair.
Policy proposals to improve internationalisation success and lift NZ’s prosperity
03 Dec 2010 | Media Releases
Report released today proposes 14 policy directions to improve the success of internationalising businesses.
Top 10 issues for New Zealand’s long term success
01 Dec 2010 | Media Releases
The top ten issues that, if resolved, would make the greatest contribution to the country’s long term success.
Internationalisation success will drive New Zealand’s prosperity
19 Aug 2010 | Media Releases
New Zealand has made choices that differ from those made in other advanced economies and there is good reason to believe those choices have eroded relative economic performance.
Promising steps on the economy but life expectancy rank has slipped
30 Sep 2010 | Media Releases
Six months on from its first release, the NZahead report card on social, economic and environmental measures confirms average performance for New Zealand.