Youth Living Standards Framework is Published
The LivingStandardsNZ participants’ 2020 Youth Living Standards Framework and the YouTube video of the final presentation are now available! Twenty-eight young New Zealanders stress tested Treasury’s living standards framework in early December 2020 and found the current framework an extremely useful tool for ensuing a broader, deeper and wider discussion on complex public policy issues (what...
Q&A with John Fitzgerald
During our latest workshop LivingStandardsNZ, we were fortunate enough to have Dr John Fitzgerald from the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin Ireland, join us for pizza and a Q&A. Dr Fitzgerald was able to provide a global perspective, talking about his career, comparisons of the New Zealand and Irish economies and about attracting back our best and brightest from overseas....
Living the good life: Defining ‘living standards’ working paper
While assisting with the LivingStandardsNZ Workshop, Diana Tam produced a working paper for the Institute, entitled Living the Good Life – Defining ‘living standards’, which is now available for download on the McGuinness Institute website. The working paper is intended to be a non-exhaustive and brief look at how we define living standards in...
LivingStandardsNZ: Thought for the day
For each day of the LivingStandardsNZ workshop (3-5 December 2020) we are giving the participants a ‘Thought for the Day’. These thoughts are from a range of sources and are designed to encourage the participants to think broadly about some of the issues they will be tackling over the course of the week. Today’s Thought for the...
LivingStandardsNZ Day One: GEN Conference
Today the LivingstandardsNZ Workshop kicked off with participants attending the Government Economics Network Conference at Te Papa. The topic of the conference was ‘modern economic methods for robust policy analysis‘ and participants were fortunate enough to hear from a diverse range of talented speakers. First up was John FitzGerald from the Economic and Social Research Institute...
LivingStandardsNZ: Thought for the day
For each day of the LivingStandardsNZ workshop (3-5 December 2020) we are giving the participants a ‘Thought for the Day’. These thoughts are from a range of sources and are designed to encourage the participants to think broadly about some of the issues they will be tackling over the course of the week. Today’s Thought for...
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