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The Commission has completed its inquiry into Technological change and the future of work. Thanks to everyone who read and commented on this blog! Read the final inquiry report and recommendations to Government here.

Decisions, decisions…

5 February 2020 | Nik Green

In my last post, I talked about how the rough and tumble of reallocation led to productivity growth,…

It’s all in the mix

3 February 2020 | Nik Green

In our first four draft reports, the Commission focused on questions like:

Is technology progress a…

Is NZ short of equity capital?

11 December 2019 | Dave Heatley

Low business investment is a problem for tech adoption. Interest rates don’t provide a convincing e…

Why aren’t NZ businesses investing?

9 December 2019 | Dave Heatley

Crazily low interest rates but NZ businesses are not investing. Why not?

It’s an important question…

Left off the map – again!

26 September 2019 | Judy Kavanagh

This is a slide from Professor Richard Baldwin’s presentation about his new book The Globotics Uphea…

Too much (investment) screen time?

23 September 2019 | Nik Green

Is this the reason why New Zealand doesn’t feature more prominently on global business and investmen…

Distance learning

How important is human capital to productivity?

18 September 2019 | Amelia Sharman

Have you ever done a MOOC? After completing four separate degrees and ten years at university, you w…

Artificial intelligence

Could AI be the answer to our productivity woes?

3 July 2019 | Judy Kavanagh

Regardless of the technology hype, we’re in a productivity slump worldwide.

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