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Mariana Mazzucato calls reform of the platform-dominated market for personal data the main economic challenge of our time
McKinsey researchers find that the global economic centre of gravity is shifting to Asia faster than you may think
As disappointed farmers deal with Fonterra’s poor performance it emerges a new multi-million dollar cheese plant is hardly being used. The Spinoff's Maria Slade reports
Larry Summers says that monetary policymakers should finally admit their impotence in the face of secular stagnation
Much of the West, as well as Asia, continues to assume the worst about China - a habit of mind that could have catastrophic consequences. As Albert Camus once wrote, “Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else’s blood."
G7 leaders again paid lip service to reforming the WTO. But, with US-led effort to weaken it, it's more likely we'll get a new international order where trade deals replace trade rules
Rural confidence has dropped sharply from the previous quarter with farmers across all sectors now less optimistic about the prospects for the agricultural economy in the year ahead: Rabobank survey
In addition to reaffirming their commitment to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, world leaders should focus on the role of private finance, without which there will be no green transition
What happens when the nation’s biggest spender changes the way it shops? It has the potential to shift our entire economy says Grant Thornton's Michael Worth
After the GFC, the G20 took action to boost market and consumer confidence, and then implemented reforms to ensure financial stability. With the multilateral system under severe strain today, a similar push is urgently needed
With the US disengaging from Asia and China trying to dominate the region, Asia’s democracies must assert their common interests more strongly. Building an Asian multilateral order will need greater commitment
Motu researchers on super-cooled livers, climate change and health, infostorms and fake news, vampire brain cancers and lesser know consequences of global deforestation
Although low interest rates have traditionally been viewed as positive for economic growth, this may not be the case anymore. Instead, they may lead to slower growth by increasing market concentration and weakening firms' incentive to boost productivity
Stephen Grenville sees Argentina's latest external funding crisis as further proof of a failed approach by the International Monetary Fund, and underscores the need for reform at the IMF itself
Alwyn Poole calls for families of decile one to three children to rise up and demand better from an education system that is failing them badly and getting worse. It is a deepening tragedy for Maori and Pacifika children
Anthony Grant suggests how most parents can hold the core motivation of their family trust in the face of the new legal obligation to inform; namely, that the prospect of trust wealth will not demotivate and harm their children
The risks of further ECB monetary stimulus outweigh the benefits. More stimulus will either amount to less than anticipated or will not be sustained and undermine the eurozone's financial system and public finances in far-reaching ways
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Andrew Malcolm takes you through how to make a mortgage break decision, helping you assess whether the break fee cost is worth doing, looking at all the wider issues
China is working to strengthen multilateral institutions which it sees as having failed to adjust to the growing clout of emerging and developing economies, says Xizhou Zhou. That failure to adjust undermines their legitimacy
Moneyhub's Christopher Walsh digs deep in to reverse mortgages, what they are, their advantages, and their pitfalls and disadvantages. This is a full resource if you are considering one
Auckland City economists find three things people value as reflected in house prices: development options, short supply, and being near jobs. Trees don't count
The recent decision by China to let the renminbi fall below CN¥7 per US dollar has little to do with trade or currency wars. Rather, it represents an important step toward reforming China’s inflexible exchange-rate regime says Yu Yongding
The combination of low unemployment and stubbornly low inflation across Western advanced economies has exposed the fundamental flaws of the standard economic theory that have long informed monetary policymaking. What theory should replace it?
When is being unemployed not unemployed? A true measure would show more teens are without jobs than people who have supposedly ‘retired’, writes former Treasury senior staffer Tony Burton
A mystery donation to National has people asking how secure our electoral system is from corrupt foreign actors. Law expert Andrew Geddis explains what’s at stake