Tagged: OECD

NZ’s “Team of 5 million” has achieved the lowest COVID-19 death rate in the OECD – but there are still gaps in our pandemic response - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Jul 22, 2020 •

• alert level system,
• coronavirus,
• COVID-19,
• digital health solutions,
• mass masking,
• OECD,
• pandemic planning

Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Tim Chambers, Dr Amanda Kvalsvig, Dr Anja Mizdrak, Dr Nhung Nghiem, Dr Jennifer Summers, Prof Michael Baker NZ has now achieved the lowest death rate from the COVID-19 pandemic out of 37 OECD countries and appears to be the only one to succeed with elimination at a national level. But despite the success of the “team … Read More

Unpicking Steven Joyce’s press release - The Dismal Science

Michael Reddell • Sep 02, 2017 •

• GDP,
• OECD,
• politics,
• productivity

As I noted yesterday afternoon, Steven Joyce had put out a press release on productivity.  The press release was a mix of policy-based digs at the Labour Party (which weren’t of any particular interest to me) and some statistical claims, some of which seemed more or less reasonable and others not.   The press release made these … Read More

Skills matter… and we already seem to have them - The Dismal Science

Michael Reddell • Jun 30, 2016 •

• immigration policy,
• literacy,
• numeracy,
• OECD,
• skills

Earlier this week the OECD released Skills Matter, a 160 page report on the results of a programme of surveys of adult skills in OECD (and a handful of other) countries. As usual with OECD reports, it is full of fascinating charts.  Here is how they describe the programme: In the wake of the technological revolution that began in the … Read More

OECD on inequality - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Dec 11, 2014 •

• growth,
• inequality,
• New Zealand,
• OECD

Whenever a small country gets mentioned specifically in an international report, that report there gets noticed. A new OECD working paper claims that income inequality hurts economic growth, and particularly hurt New Zealand growth. Note that this is ... 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

Against capital gains taxes - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Jun 05, 2013 •

• Capital Gains Tax,
• OECD

The OECD having recommended that NZ adopt a capital gains tax, it's worth reviewing the case against them. First, here's the OECD: New Zealand belongs to a group of five OECD countries with particularly high pre-tax capital-income inequality (Figure ... Read More

We are satisfied… so why the high suicide rates? - Griffin's Gadgets

Peter Griffin • Aug 18, 2011 •

• OECD,
• youth suicide

Take a look at the graphs below, from the Mental Health Commission’s National Indicators 2011 report that uses 15 indicators to measure the mental health of the population. The top graph shows the results of a 2006 international Gallop poll that measured life satisfaction among participants in OECD countries.  New Zealand came out looking pretty good – we … Read More

Kiwis’ killer heart attack record - Visibly Shaken

Peter Griffin • Apr 22, 2010 •

• Heart Attacks,
• OECD,
• The Press

The Press carried some sobering statistics this morning about how we are leaders among comparable countries in the developed world when it comes to dying from heart attacks. As The Press health reporter Rebecca Todd explains: Sixty-three New Zealanders per 100,000 die of heart attacks every year, the report on developed nations shows. The next highest is … Read More