Motu News

Here's where you can find out how Motu Research is making and breaking news.

21 - 30 of 212 items

Why GDP is no longer the most effective measure of economic success

As a macroeconomic indicator, GDP fails to capture much of the value created in the modern world. New metrics promise to track everything from happiness to natural capital. Motu's Arthur Grimes talks about happiness and…

A first step to pricing agricultural emissions

Catherine Leining explains why pricing agricultural emissions can begin sooner at the processor level, before transitioning to the farm level here at Newsroom.

The race to carbon zero

Governments around the world are trying to tackle climate change, what Jacinda Ardern has called her generation’s nuclear-free moment. But do New Zealand’s plans live up to the hype, and what are the stakes at…

Emissions across the economy – Expert Reaction

Our Lynn Riggs comments to the Science Media Centre about the release of Stats NZ's latest environmental-economic accounts report which sums up the changes to greenhouse gas emissions across industry and households between 2007-2017. Emissions from industry…

Zero Carbon Bill could resolve hard climate change issues and give business certainty needed to invest in transformation

interest.co.nz gives our Catherine Leining a platform to discuss the Zero Carbon Bill. "So far, much of the public discussion around the Zero Carbon Bill (ZCB) has focused on what proposed emission reduction targets mean for…

New Human Rights Data Portal Coverage

Some amazing coverage from media around the world about HRMI’s new data that was released on Friday (NZ time). Check out the articles: Vox - Human rights in the US are worse than you think TVNZ: NZ’s disabled…

Motu researchers on the wellbeing budget

Arthur Grimes has an opinion piece and Catherine Leining has a hot-take in The Spinoff. Arthur is also mentioned in ABC Australia’s PM, The Canberra Times, DPA International, and the Science Media Centre expert reaction.

Motu researchers on the politics of pandanomics, the perils of fruit juice, the perks of deactivating Facebook, the best time to score, and whether weeds can save the world...

Every couple of months, Motu research analysts provide the articles that have interested them to interest.co.nz Check out this month's list.

Greenhouse gas emissions: Govt opts for harsher penalties

The government has proposed further changes to the emissions trading scheme, including tougher penalties and higher costs for emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Our Catherine Leining talks about why some of the proposed changes to…

Local expert opinion on prices is a good substitute for a full-fledged market price survey – since local prices are often missing this is great news

The comparison of poverty rates across two countries, or across regions within a country, is a common occurrence in analysis produced at the World Bank and other development agencies, as well as in published academic…