There is artistic and cultural value in maintaining historically significant buildings, but preservation efforts can also lead to public safety risks. Earthquakes threaten the older foundations and facades of heritage-designated buildings in New Zealand, explains “Deadly Heritage,” a recent joint report of Deloitte New Zealand a...
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When government officials decide they know how other people should live their lives, they tend to consider virtually every aspect of human behavior as ripe for their interference. A new study from Atlas Network partner the New Zealand Initiative examines how the country’s paternalistic “public health” movement has waged a war ag...
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Economic growth is made possible by entrepreneurs responding to local conditions with the unique knowledge they possess about regional needs and wants, but centralized regulatory policy can make that process extraordinarily difficult. To help solve that problem in New Zealand, Atlas Network partner the New Zealand Initiative rel...
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The world’s economies took a severe blow during and after the financial crisis of 2008, but few regions have experienced consequences as severe and lasting as in Europe. In a new book-length analysis from Atlas Network partner the New Zealand Initiative, economist Oliver Hartwich examines how Europe fell from being regarded as a...
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Social impact bonds represent an innovative way of funding and delivering social services. They shift the risks associated with social service funding and implementation to private sector service providers and investors, and have the potential to save taxpayer money. Atlas Network Partner The New Zealand Initiative outlined and...
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For countries with a dominant central government, public officials may have trouble imagining competition between local and regional jurisdictions. In a new article from a series by Atlas Network partner Avenir Suisse, Oliver Hartwich — a former London resident and current executive director of New Zealand–based Atlas Network pa...
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Auckland is one of the least affordable cities in the world because the government has created too many barriers to homebuilding. In fact, the problem extends beyond Auckland to the entire country of New Zealand. Not enough land is released to the market, which prevents it from being used most effectively. Regulations are also m...
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In June, Atlas Network invited the members of our network to complete the 2014 Atlas Network Partner Survey to help us identify how we can better serve our partners. Participants also received the chance to win one of five travel and accommodation grants to attend Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner 2014 on November 12-13 in New York...
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