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High hurdles for international newcomers
If you are concerned about New Zealand’s cost of living, you should think about those regulations that have a limiting effect on supply and competition.
Planning
National Business Review
Land rules deter competition
Land regulations are a cost and concern to New Zealand businesses, and they are probably a factor affecting the cost of living through land prices and competition effects.
Insights
Affordable housing is more than a motherhood statement
In considering housing and planning reforms, we need to understand why New Zealand’s housing market is failing to adjust to increases in demand.
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Planning and the economy: a complex relationship
What sounds like a paradoxical experience may not be so much of a paradox after all.
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Land supply at heart of home-front problems
This financial nightmare began with millions of Americans’ dreams of owning their own homes.
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High cost of living will make our competitiveness suffer
With Britain’s cost of living at an all-time-high, Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich, from the Centre for Independent Studies, asks whether our high cost and low satisfaction lifestyle will prevent those …
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Haus proud
New houses in Germany are cheaper than their British counterparts and on average 50 per cent larger.
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Is the Green Belt sacred?
Political language is often misleading.
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Parting shot
When I moved from Germany to London four years ago I needed some furniture for my new flat.
Inside Politics
The Need to Scrap Needs Tests
Inside Politics – The Policy Exchange newsletter (London), 18 April 2008 For reasons unknown there is a persistent prejudice about Britain on the Continent.