This paper presents an overview of the risk literature, concentrating on general approaches to risk analysis and risk assessment. We believe that this is an essential first step towards the setting of guidelines or the ...

The New Zealand town milk industry, as it has become known, was established as an entity in 1944. Prior to that time, milk supply to the urban areas was of variable quality and dependability. In order to improve the quality ...

This study reports an ex post evaluation of the impact the Supplementary Minimum Price (SMP) Scheme had on the New Zealand pastoral livestock sector over the period 1978/79 to 1984/85, and for a forecast following five ...

This research measures the costs and benefits of the 1986 reform of the New Zealand egg industry. The main items of this reform were the removal of price, marketing, import and grading controls. Production control remained ...

During the 1970's the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board introduced a buffer fund price stabilisation scheme, and the Government implemented a pastoral sector Supplementary Minimum Prices scheme. The schemes were jointly ...

The past five years have seen substantial change in the New Zealand meat industry. Control of marketing of New Zealand meat by the Meat Producers' Board led to changing roles for many companies and for the Board itself. ...

The themes for the 1986 Conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society were Trade Policy and the GATT Negotiations, Non-Government Arrangements for Funding Agricultural Research, ...

This report describes an updated version of an econometric model of the New Zealand pastoral livestock sector which has evolved over a number of years. Taking earlier work by Laing and Zwart as a starting point, their ...

The results from an interview survey of rural working age people in Southland are presented in this report, along with an overview of relevant domestic and international literature.

This study has been carried out as part of the government's continuing review of the economy, in particular the levels of assistance provided to various sectors, and examines the levels of assistance given to the tourism ...