An appropriate objective for trade policy ought to be to maximise imports. Unfortunately, trade policy negotiators get very caught up in the facilitation of this objective by necessarily arguing about access for exports, Krugman (1997). In this context, a ...

The goat in New Zealand has long been an accepted but largely ignored animal. In recent years interest in the goat has revived. This is especially so in terms of mohair production, as a result of the current high prices available for mohair, but intere ...

"In the rural sector, computer adoption has been significant, although not at the rate evident in the urban scene. In order to identify the level and type of computer use practised by rural businesses, especially farmers, a survey was carried out by the K ...

The purpose of this paper is to report on the empirical application of a linear programming model of the New Zealand economy, and to draw some conclusions which may be of use to national policy makers. Although the mathematical structure of the model and ...

Two years ago Asia’s tiger economies were celebrating the Asian miracle, operating in an environment of relatively low inflation with a stable but cautious monetary policy. However, the rising wave of growth has suddenly turned into an Asian Tsunami. Rapi ...