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While much popular and academic work assumes strong links between elites, there is a surprising lack of empirical evidence for such beliefs, especially in New Zealand. This paper aims to address some of these empirical gaps by examining elite linkages in New Zealand and Australia, drawing on 180 interviews with economic policy elites in the two countries. It shows there are significant social network ties between economic policy elites within Australia and New Zealand and some evidence this has facilitated policy consensus.

Intro -- Conducting the peer review -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- New Zealand's aid at a glance -- Context of the New Zealand peer review -- The DAC's main finding sand recommendations -- Secretariat's report -- Towards a comprehensive New Zealand development effort -- New Zealand's vision and policies for development co-operation -- Allocating New Zealand's official development assistance -- Managing New Zealand's development co-operation -- New Zealand's development cooperation delivery and partnerships -- Results and accountability of New Zealand's development co-operation -- New Zealand's humanitarian assistance -- Annex A: Progress since the 2010 DAC peer review recommendations -- Annex B: OECD/DAC standard suite of tables -- Annex C: Field visit to Kiribati -- Annex D: Organisational structure.

The Savings Working Group in New Zealand presented recommendations in February 2011, and suggested raising national saving by 2?3 percent of GDP. The increase in net public saving in the country explains part of the reason for lower net private saving in New Zealand. Net public saving of the country is about 3 percent of GDP above the average of advanced countries for the past 15 years. Financial liberalization also appears to have played a role in saving behavior

This comprehensive assessment of the innovation system of New Zealand examines how innovation has affected economic performance in New Zealand. It looks at who the actors are and how they are related to each other. And it examines in detail the role of the government and the effectiveness of the system. Finally, it makes a series of recommendations

AbstractIn 1984 the Labour government in New Zealand began a wide‐ranging process of reform with the objective of achieving a sustainable improvement in economic performance. The breadth and rapidity with which deregulation, tax reform, and privatisation were implemented has attracted widespread interest. The expected improvement in macroeconomic performance, however, has not yet been realised.This article describes some background to the policy shift, and focuses on macroeconomic aspects of the reforms. It argues that while many improvements in microeconomic resource allocation have been made, the interaction between monetary, fiscal and wages policies has contributed substantially to the present high cost of structural change in New Zealand.