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The paper argues that if a results focus is to truly be introduced to the New Zealand public management system then all aspects of the wider system will need to be amended, in order to support a general cultural change.

Previous work has suggested that New Zealands firm dynamics and business demographics show a high proportion of small firms, small average firm size, and high rates of firm and employment turnover by comparison with other OECD countries. This paper reports on new comparative analyses of New Zealands firm dynamics and business demography that attempt to control for measurement differences.

Using a new, specially-designed survey, the authors find that most respondents express a strong desire to be well informed on economic policy issues, and that television is their dominant source of information.

This study examines the export-led growth hypothesis using annual time series data from Chile in a production function framework. It addresses the limitations of the existing literature and focuses on the impact of manufactured and primary exports on productivity growth.

The report assigns more than three dozen variables to eight categories combined into a single competitiveness index to measure and compare metro areas and states. Massachusetts leads the state category, while Seattle leads in metro areas.

The authors evaluate if and how evaluations have recently been used in two cases: educational policy and regional development policy. Based on documentary studies and interviews the reasons why evaluations are used or not used are analyzed.

Collective dynamics of technological knowledge can be represented by integrating the analysis of technological communication along the line of percolation methodology within a simple technological knowledge production function, according to the author.

The plan from the Department of Trade and Industry sets out the policies needed, over the next five years and beyond, to stimulate the industries and jobs of the future through science and innovation in United Kingdom; to create new partnerships with industry to promote enterprise and high-performance workplaces; to deliver a new approach to regulation; and to lead the drive for reform in Europe.

Previous research has treated public investment in infrastructure as exogenous, according to the authors. They remedy this shortcoming by providing a political economy analysis of infrastructure choice based upon consumer preferences derived
from spatial competition models.

Using data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities, the authors assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as
measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. Results indicate that U.S.-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of
foreign-born increased between 1970 and 1990 have experienced a significant average increase in their wage and in the rental price of their housing.