Jun 17, 2024 | Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
By Jen Purdie, University of Otago Photo by Arvind Vallabh on Unsplash Last week’s announcement of the government’s plans to reopen New Zealand’s territorial waters to oil drilling comes as no surprise. All three coalition parties campaigned on reversing the 2018 ban...
Jan 5, 2023 | Featured, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
Photo by YoTuT, licensed under CC BY 2.0. By Annalise O’Sullivan-Moffat Although the importance of water as a resource is well accepted, fewer people know that sand is the second most consumed resource globally. Why is sand so important? Sand is a...
Dec 14, 2021 | Business & Economics
Since the COVID pandemic, the United States and other countries have faced challenges in terms of economic recovery. This has resulted in issues such as supply chain disruptions and what has been reported as high rates of inflation. What is inflation? What is causing...
Dec 6, 2021 | Business & Economics
The COVID pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of the world’s supply chain, with its emphasis on lowering costs without regard to the resilience of disruptions. Can government and industry cooperate to build resilience without adding prohibitive costs to...
Nov 7, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Stefano Riela As Covid-19 cases decline, capacity constraints and shortages should ease, spending on travel and entertainment should pick up, slowing demand for goods and taking some of the pressure off supply chains and delivery times. In recent months it has been...
Oct 21, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Nicolas Hérault Low interest rates and COVID-19 mean governments, not central banks, now control the world’s key economic levers. The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a huge shock to the global economy just as we are witnessing a major shift in who calls the shots...
May 28, 2020 | Business & Economics
By Ilan Noy Rich and poor don’t recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will be a global challenge. Since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, disaster recovery plans are almost always framed with aspirational plans to “build back better”. It’s a fine sentiment...
Apr 4, 2020 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Ben Goldson Having agreed to restrict production in recent years, it appears that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Russian Federation have been racing to outdo the other in crashing the price of oil. Having agreed to restrict production in recent years, it...
Jun 26, 2017 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
What is the relationship between minerals (such as oil, diamonds, and gold) and conflict, authoritarianism, and poverty? Scholars have spent years studying how the extractive industries impact people’s lives, their governance, and the environment throughout the...
Jun 8, 2017 | Business & Economics
Should corporations put public purpose before profit? Once upon a time, corporations were required to have a public purpose, and once they fulfilled it, they were dissolved. How did we get to where we are today, and what does it mean for democracy? Maria Armoudian...