The Ministry of Social Development has been evaluating the effectiveness of its employment assistance programmes . Here's the key figu...

A few of the worthies as I close out the browser tabs before Chrome eats every last bit of my system's resources: Thomas Lumley's...

So. All of Left-Twitter figures that anyone wanting a blue-green coalition are either shills for National who want to destroy the Greens, be...

Whenever food prices go up in one of the quarterly surveys, cue the news stories on how bad it is that food prices went up. When food prices...

New Zealand is mostly the Outside of the Asylum. The rules around what you can and can't do on election day - not so much. Lots of thin...

From the latest issue of the American Economic Review (gated): We examine the impact of policy uncertainty on trade, prices, and real inc...

There is a big known problem in New Zealand income and expenditure data. The big known problem is that incomes in the bottom decile are ver...