The New Zealand Initiative

Dr Oliver Hartwich and Dr David Law discuss the details of the government's new housing package and what it will mean for the housing market, house prices and first home buyers. They also discuss the ...

30 Mar 202111min

Following the release of his 2020 report, Pharmac: The right prescription? Dr Bryce Wilkinson shares his thoughts on the Government's recently announced review into Pharmac's operating model and budge...

30 Mar 20215min

Matt Burgess and Oliver Hartwich sit down to discuss Oliver's recent Newsroom column on what we can learn from the European ETS experience, and how it relates to some of the finer points in the Climat...

25 Mar 202132min

Oliver Hartwich, Eric Crampton, Bryce Wilkinson and David Law discuss the Government's new housing package.

23 Mar 202121min

German Chancellor Angela Merkel won't be running for another term, but that is about the only certainty in this year's elections. Oliver Hartwich shares his views on who will succeed Merkel on the Ini...

8 Mar 20218min

Following the release of our latest report, Educational Performance and Funding in New Zealand: Are our children getting the education they deserve? Senior Fellow and co-author of the report Dr David ...

4 Mar 20217min

New, accurate, and rapid saliva-based PCR testing for Covid-19 has started to be used in New Zealand, after being validated by the University of Illinois in 2020. The New Zealand Initiative Chief Eco...

22 Feb 202143min

Leonard Hong's report, The Need to Build: The demographic drivers of housing demand, outlines why the worst of the housing crisis is yet to come. Even with net-zero migration for the next 20 years, we...

19 Feb 202113min