Tagged: budget

NZ budget 2018: gains for health, housing and education in fiscally conservative budget - Guest Work

Guest Author • May 17, 2018 •

• Budget,
• education,
• government,
• Health,
• housing

Grant Duncan, Massey University; Christoph Schumacher, Massey University; Martin Berka, Massey University, and Nicolette Sheridan, Massey University Finance minister Grant Robertson had to achieve two contradictory aims when he announced the budget today: correct “nine years of neglect”, especially in health and education, and also produce a surplus and pay off … Read More

The Sugar Levy: a Briefing - The Dismal Science

Paul Walker • Jan 15, 2018 •

• Britain,
• Budget,
• diet drinks,
• levy,
• Obesity,
• Sugar Tax

In March 2016, Chancellor George Osborne announced a ‘sugar levy’ on manufacturers of soft drinks. Intended to begin in April 2018, the plan is for a two-tier tax with one rate set for drinks containing more The IEA in London has released a short paper, The Sugar Levy: A Briefing, on … Read More

Health costs and the Consumer Price Index - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • May 30, 2017 •

• Budget,
• consumer price index,
• CPI,
• Health,
• health costs,
• inflation

So Labour and National are scrapping over whether National’s increased or decreased the health budget. There’s no question that health budgets are well up since National took office, whether in per capita terms, real terms, nominal terms, or real per capita terms. Population’s up about 10% since 2008; health budgets in CPI-adjusted terms are up about 29% since 2008. So … Read More

The real increase in infrastructure - The Dismal Science

Donal Curtin • May 28, 2017 •

• Budget,
• infrastructure,
• roading

The government made a decent effort in the Budget to boost the spend on infrastructure, as it showed in this graph, taken from the ‘Capital at a Glance’ document handed out yesterday as part of the Budget material. But if you thought that we will have an extra $32.5 billion worth of shiny new infrastructure in four … Read More

World Science Week: Where are we in the world? - Kidney Punch

John Pickering • Aug 26, 2014 •

• budget,
• Green Party,
• Labour Party,
• National Party,
• OECD,
• OECD countries Research and Development expenditure,
• Research and Development,
• United Future,
• World Science Week

It’s World Science Week.  So, where are we in the science world?  One measure showing our commitment to science is our expenditure on R&D.  If we compare ourselves to the other OECD countries, we see that we are right at the bottom of the pile at 1.27% of GDP and have recently been overtaken by Hungary. … Continue reading → … Read More

Improving the health of our children: Project Energize bang for the health $ - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • May 21, 2014 •

• Budget,
• healthy families nz,
• Project Energize

[Editor note, Blakely and Wilson: This is an invited blog by Professor Elaine Rush, in which she overviews the recent Budget from a child health perspective, and then lays out the case and evidence for Project Energize]. Professor Elaine Rush, … Continue reading → … Read More

Science funding down under – a tale of opposites - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • May 16, 2014 •

• Allan Wilson Centre,
• Australia,
• budget,
• Centres of Research Excellence,
• CoREs,
• Funding,
• Gravida,
• Keith Ng,
• Medical Research Future Fund,
• Peter Gluckman,
• Science,
• Steven Joyce,
• Tertiary Education Commission

This week has seen budget announcements from both Australia and New Zealand and it is a story of opposites when it comes to science funding. The fabulous Keith Ng (@keith_ng) has produced a great dynamic infographic if you want to see where New Zealand is going to be spending it’s money and how this … Read More

$20bn for Medical Research! - Kidney Punch

John Pickering • May 15, 2014 •

• $100Dialysis,
• Australia,
• budget,
• future fund,
• HRC,
• medical research,
• NHMRC,
• Tony Abbott

Alas, not in New Zealand, but close … our Australian counterparts in medical research appear on the face of it to have scored big in what appears otherwise to be a grim Australian budget.  An AUD$20bn medical research “future fund” is to be established. This effectively means that by 2022-3 there will be twice the … Continue reading → … Read More

Budget 2014: Live coverage on Sciblogs - Griffin's Gadgets

Peter Griffin • May 15, 2014 •

• budget,
• Economics,
• New Zealand,
• Sciblogs,
• Science

News on and reaction to Budget 2014 will be featured here this afternoon, as our Sciblogs and Science Media Centre experts and contributors offer their take on the state of the Government’s finances and its funding priorities. Follow the Storify our feed to get the latest updates in one place… Live updates on Storify below… [View the … Read More

A letter for all District Health Board Candidates - Kidney Punch

John Pickering • Sep 30, 2013 •

• budget,
• District Health Board,
• evidence based policy,
• Health,
• research,
• vote

Dear District Health Board Candidates Soon I and thousands like me will cast our votes to choose our District Health Boards.  Given the huge budgets of DHBs and the huge potential to influence health outcomes I want more information from you than a couple of paragraphs I received with the voting packs.  Below are two … Continue reading → … Read More