By the end of the 1980s, the rise in unemployment in New Zealand was dramatic. The registered unemployment rate fluctured between 3.8 and 5.5 over the very unstable period between 1980 and 1985 but then rose at an increasing rate to 11.8 per cent by 1990. The article looks at the labour market,...

The 1980s saw a major transition take place in New Zealand's transport industry - from being one of the most regulated transport industries in the capitalist world New Zealand's became one of the most market oriented. The article scrutinizes the transition in this country's transport industry....

At the beginning of the decade the state in New Zealand was actively subsidising manufactured exports and was a major actor promoting the "Think Big" energy related projects. By 1990 the state had virtually completed a comprehensive programme of reforms aimed at creating a level playing field...

Farmers were the first group in New Zealand to bear the brunt of the major social and economic changes of the 1980s. The election of the Labour government in 1984 was the key date for the fortunes of farming in the 1980s, but this was not the only factor involved. It is now quite clear that the...

The 1980s brought a big chance in economic management policy in New Zealand. The accelerated deterioration in social wellbeing arising from economic decline in the country at large saw divergent trends emerge and grow in the circumstances of women. After a brief look at significant gains in the...

As the authors see it, aid is a political tool. It has many forms. Aid includes both government and non-government agencies as donors. New Zealand is a small donor by world standards. The authors analyse changes in New Zealand's Official Development Assistance (ODA) Programme over the past 30...