Over a very long period of time, New Zealand's structural policy has devoted a low priority to the export sector. Up till the 1960's, New Zealand seemingly got away with the strategy for the agricultural segment of the ...

Increases in national income are usually treated as economic growth. If large enough to produce increases in per capita income, they are generally considered as welfare enhancing. Yet, at the same time, these increases in ...

Although the use of various of forms of marketing contracts is increasing within agricultural marketing channels, there has been only a limited number of research efforts which investigate the factors influencing the ...

When this Seminar was announced there were some raised eyebrows and the question was asked: Why hold a Seminar on wool marketing when the price of wool has never been higher? There are a number of good answers to such a ...

This paper is concerned with an analysis of the differences in demand for meat, especially lamb and beef, between different regions in the United Kingdom. It represents an extension of earlier published work in which ...

The papers presented at the 1985 Conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society reflect the concern with current policy issues, and interest in applied problems facing the agricultural ...

This Discussion Paper presents a report on a literature survey of alternative market structures, carried out under contract to the Department of Trade and Industry. This report has been divided into two Parts. Part 1 ...

A seminar on lamb marketing was organised to provide a forum for discussion of this important issue, as New Zealand faces significant changes in the lamb marketing environment. The increasing importance of new lamb ...

The main purpose of this paper is to describe the exercise in indicative economic planning which has been carried out in New Zealand over the last 18 months. After outlining the background to the National Development ...

This discussion paper updates the data on gross capital formation in the AERU research report titled: Capital formation in New Zealand agriculture, 1946-67.