The New Zealand dairy industry has been well placed to take advantage of the relaxing international market barriers that have long plagued the dairy trade. At the same time it is very important to keep the size of New ...

The world recessionary period of the 1980's forced many governments to re-evaluate their economic management strategies. Today, existing strategies are being supplanted by a belief that economic growth is best achieved by ...

The purpose of this study is to examine differences between low vs. high-performance exporters. For this purpose, the effects of selected firm-related and export strategy-related variables on three selected measures of ...

The developments in the European Union and its environmental policy have important implications for New Zealand. While the importance of the European Union as a market for New Zealand produce has diminished, it is still ...

The crisis in Asia has dominated economic, financial, and much business thinking for more than seven months. It looks set to continue to do so for an extended period. The effects on the countries concerned, on the region, ...

The Sanitary Phytosanitary Code (SPS) is an effort to reduce the technical barriers to trade created by phytosanitary regulations, or trade barriers related to plant and animal health. A key feature of SPS is risk assessment ...

In this paper we focus on the effects of the crisis on New Zealand exports, including the effects on New Zealand manufacturers, on the effects of the crisis on growth in East Asia, on the effects of the crisis on the ...