This issues paper focuses on how to measure efficiency in core areas of the New Zealand state sector, and how these measures can form part of effective performance management systems.

Explores a public management framework in relation to introducing productivity measurement to the social sector.

This paper estimates and discusses and a range of quality adjusted productivity measures for New Zealand schools.

The Government has asked the Productivity Commission to carry out an inquiry into “new models of tertiary education” in New Zealand. The inquiry takes a whole-of-system perspective, considering how trends – especially in technology, tuition costs, skill demand, demography and internationalisation – may drive changes in business models and delivery models in the tertiary sector...

The Government has asked the Productivity Commission to undertake an inquiry into the system of urban planning in New Zealand. The main purpose of the inquiry is to “review New Zealand’s urban planning system and to identify, from first principles, the most appropriate system for allocating land use through this system to support desirable social...