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Sovereign Bond Investing and Human Rights: An Analysis of New Zealand’s Retail Investment Funds
Authors: Anne-Marie Brook | K. Chad Clay | Zoe Shepherd
Working Paper
This paper finds that as of March 2024, more than half a billion dollars of KiwiSaver and other retail investments were lent to governments on ‘high alert’ for human rights violations. This is a chance…
Impacts of macroeconomic policies on objective and subjective wellbeing: The role of housing tenure
Authors: Arthur Grimes | Norman Gemmell | Amelia Blamey
Working Paper
Between 2005 and 2021, house prices in Aotearoa New Zealand rose 142%, and that surge has deepened inequalities in people’s wellbeing. Homeowners gained; renters lost ground. When house prices rise, homeowners who own their homes…
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2025-11-10
Published in prestigious Nature Communications journal: Overcoming challenges to make the energy transition a just labour transitionA team of our researchers were recently published in the prestigious Nature Communications journal (with an international team from multiple…
