The theme of the conference this year is 1984-1994: Ten Years of Progress? The last decade has seen considerable change to the New Zealand economy and the agricultural sector. We have seen significant changes in fiscal ...

This is a report about the development and delivery of economic and policy analysis in the agriculture and agri-food sector in New Zealand and how government reform has affected this activity. This report was prepared ...

The themes for the 1991 Conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society were Agricultural Outlook, Economics and Policy, Farm Management, and Marketing and Business. This discussion ...

This paper is based on the assumptions that world oil resources are finite and that world oil production will peak sometime in the 1980s or 1990s (Hughes & Mesarovic 1978 : 139). Such a scenario is now widely accepted ...

Before devaluation in November 1967, New Zealand faced the most marked deflationary pressure on the economy since the 1930’s. Since 1964, economic policies had emphasised the need for growth, based on an expanding flow ...

This Discussion Paper presents some views on the relationship between the Acts under which the producer boards operate and the Commerce Act, 1986. In particular, the discussion reviews the interpretation of the powers ...

This paper sets out the available information on price trends facing the dairy industry since 1948/49, and some estimates of productivity increases over the same period. The general aim of the paper is to ascertain how the ...

A good deal of interest has been shown in the marketing of vegetables over recent years particularly with reference to marketing margins. This survey is a study of such margins for different groups of retailers for two ...

The study of supply has always interested agricultural economists. A complete understanding of the supply behaviour of farmers under different price situations is the basis of most teaching in agricultural economics and a ...

Two issues which have attracted the attention of economists and policymakers in New Zealand in recent years are a decline in the size of the farming sub sector relative to the New Zealand economy, and slow rates of ...