Valuing New Zealand’s Clean Green Image

Selling Australia as ‘ Clean and Green ’

‘Green and clean’ has been used as a key marketing tool to promote Australian products overseas. The rationale is that consumers are generally concerned about personal health and the environment and will choose, and pay price premiums, for products that are, or perceived to be, clean (good for them) and green (good for the environment) over alternative products. But is Australia seen as clean a...

Investing in New Zealand’s Future Health Workforce Post-entry training of New Zealand’s future health workforce: Proposed investment approach

Strategic Choices in Inflation Targeting: The New Zealand Experience

pendence of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ, New Zealand’s central bank) and set the single objective of price stability for the country’s monetary policy, came into force in 1990. The first Policy Targets Agreement (PTA) specifically defining the inflation target was signed in March of that year. However, in New Zealand the adoption of the concept and practice of inflation targeting, in ...

Forecasting New Zealand’s Real GDP

Recent time series methods are applied to the problem of forecasting New Zealand’s real GDP. Model selection is conducted within autoregressive (AR) and vector autoregressive (VAR) classes, allowing for evolution in the form of the models over time. The selections are performed using the Schwarz (1978) BIC and the Phillips-Ploberger (1996) PIC criteria. The forecasts generated by the data-deter...

Visual Guided Grasping of Aggregates using Self-Valuing Learning

We present a self-valuing learning technique which is capable of learning how to grasp unfamiliar objects and generalize the learned abilities. The learning system consists of two learners which distinguish between local and global grasping criteria. The local criteria are not object specific while the global criteria cover physical properties of each object. The system is self-valuing, i.e. it...