New Zealand serves as a good case study of the processes of economic adjustment for a number of reasons. Its economic structure has strong similarities with both the developed and less developed country groupings: it is ...

This paper is a response to the Tariff Working Party Report to the Minister of Trade and Industry, 1987. Objectives of the paper are to: expand the case for removing import protection; provide some insight into the future ...

The following report contains a description of version two of an econometric model of the New Zealand pastoral livestock sector of the New Zealand economy. This description should be viewed as a further development of the ...

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 ...

This paper reports on an investigation of the pastoral livestock sector of New Zealand. The sector's recent history, and also New Zealand's, has been one of slow, and sometimes negative growth. As a result of the sector's ...

Recent years have seen a major revolution in the world of electronics. Computers have increased in size and capability and at the same time decreased in cost. Equally as important, communication systems have improved, ...

On July 31, 1985, Farmlands Grain New Zealand Society Ltd engaged the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College to conduct an audit of the marketing and administrative performance of the Society for the ...

Recent proposals have been made to introduce biological agents to naturally regulate gorse (Ulex europaeus) in New Zealand (Hillcost-benefit analysis, 1986). Gorse is a serious scrub weed to both farmers and foresters, but ...

This report reviews recent changes in rural society by describing adjustments on the farm and in the rural community. The financial position of farmers is described and shows that restructuring has had differential impacts ...

The aim of this study was to measure, from an economic efficiency viewpoint, the impact of making the domestic wheat pricing scheme more responsive to changes in the world wheat price. This was done by distilling information ...