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August 25, 2021
Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana. Over the past two decades, the Asia-Pacific region has made remarkable progress in managing disaster risk. But countries can never let down their guard. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its epicentre now in Asia, and all its tragic consequences, has exposed the frailties of human societies in the face of powerful ... <a title="Op-Ed: Asia Pacific – Resilience in a riskier world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/op-ed-asia-pacific-resilience-in-a-riskier-world/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Asia Pacific – Resilience in a riskier world">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2021
Opinion by Najib Hedayat, courtesy of MakeLemonade.nz. EDITOR’S NOTE: Najib Hedayat came to New Zealand as an Afghan teenage refugee, and later graduated with a master’s commerce degree at the University of Canterbury. He completed much of his postgraduate thesis in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), a unit created ... <a title="OP-ED: Reasons for the Afghan government collapse – Najib Hedayat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/20/op-ed-reasons-for-the-afghan-government-collapse-najib-hedayat/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Reasons for the Afghan government collapse – Najib Hedayat">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2021
Opinion by Chris Leitch, Leader of Social Credit party. As the Reserve Bank winds down its money creation programme (Quantitative Easing) some economists and commentators are calling for a return to orthodoxy – as if the economic regime that was being followed in the run up to 2020 was somehow delivering better results for the ... <a title="Opinion by Chris Leitch – Return to orthodoxy the last thing we need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/31/opinion-by-chris-leitch-return-to-orthodoxy-the-last-thing-we-need/" aria-label="Read more about Opinion by Chris Leitch – Return to orthodoxy the last thing we need">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2021
Joint Op-Ed By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Kanni Wignaraja, and Bambang Susantono If the world wants to beat back the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure no one is left behind in the recovery, two issues thrown into sharp relief by the pandemic need attention: digitalization and regional cooperation. Ensuring the digital transformation reaches all in Asia Pacific ... <a title="OP-ED: Combating COVID-19 and Ensuring No One is Left Behind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/12/op-ed-combating-covid-19-and-ensuring-no-one-is-left-behind/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Combating COVID-19 and Ensuring No One is Left Behind">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2021
Joint Op-Ed by: Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Kanni Wignaraja, Omar Abdi. With health systems at a breaking point, hospitals at capacity and desperate family members searching for oxygen for loved ones, the devastating second wave of COVID-19 that has swept across South Asia has felt surreal. Official figures have indicated record-breaking daily coronavirus cases and deaths, ... <a title="Op-Ed: Universal civil registration and vital statistics are critical for truth, trust and COVID recovery in Asia and the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/28/op-ed-universal-civil-registration-and-vital-statistics-are-critical-for-truth-trust-and-covid-recovery-in-asia-and-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Universal civil registration and vital statistics are critical for truth, trust and COVID recovery in Asia and the Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2021
Op-Ed by Chris Leitch – leader of the Social Credit Party. One could be forgiven for thinking that the last few members of the Flat Earth Society had infiltrated the New Zealand Initiative, which is a pity because not all the Initiative’s ideas are bad. I disagree with their slavish adherence to the notion that ... <a title="Op-Ed: Fiscal Fantasy Land Indeed – Chris Leitch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/01/op-ed-fiscal-fantasy-land-indeed-chris-leitch/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Fiscal Fantasy Land Indeed – Chris Leitch">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2021
Analysis by Simon Angelo (WealthMorning.com) Our business is finding profitable and innovative businesses to invest in. We’ve had a stellar recovery run since Covid. If there’s one thing that separates these companies out from the rest, it is this: They have found a profitable niche and own that part of the market. They are not ... <a title="Analysis – The Singapore Conundrum: Why Emulating Its Success Could be a Mistake" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/14/analysis-the-singapore-conundrum-why-emulating-its-success-could-be-a-mistake/" aria-label="Read more about Analysis – The Singapore Conundrum: Why Emulating Its Success Could be a Mistake">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2021
3 May 2021 By Simon Angelo editor of WealthMorning.com There’s a sign on the Northern Motorway I see at least twice a week. It’s advertising a high-density townhouse developer. The homes appear squashed together, side-by-side and on top of one another. There are no garages. Garages can be important If there’s a tangible link to ... <a title="OP-ED: Simon Angelo on Why You Might Need a Garage to Get Rich" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/03/op-ed-simon-angelo-on-why-you-might-need-a-garage-to-get-rich/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Simon Angelo on Why You Might Need a Garage to Get Rich">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2021
SOURCE: CORELOGIC: The CoreLogic Property Market & Economic Update for Q1 2021 reinforced the heated market conditions which led to the Government’s recent housing policy announcement. Through the first quarter of 2021 sales activity remained high despite record-low listings, property values rose rapidly, and mortgaged investor participation surged from 27% to a record-high 29% share ... <a title="Analysis – CoreLogic data reinforces heated housing market conditions that led to NZ Gov’s policy moves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/29/analysis-corelogic-data-reinforces-heated-housing-market-conditions-that-led-to-nz-govs-policy-moves/" aria-label="Read more about Analysis – CoreLogic data reinforces heated housing market conditions that led to NZ Gov’s policy moves">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2021
Analysis by Simon Angelo, Editor, Wealth Morning * August 2000: IMF Report contends Irish property prices are almost certainly heading for a collapse in the medium-term. * Between 2007 to 2013: Irish house prices (nominal) fall 54%. * March 2021: IMF Report contends New Zealand’s unsustainable house price rises could trigger a pronounced correction. * ... <a title="Analysis – New Zealand Property Market: An Eerie Warning from the IMF – Wealth Morning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/27/analysis-new-zealand-property-market-an-eerie-warning-from-the-imf-wealth-morning/" aria-label="Read more about Analysis – New Zealand Property Market: An Eerie Warning from the IMF – Wealth Morning">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Op-Ed by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana. The world is emerging from the biggest social and economic shock in living memory, but it will be a long time before the deep scars of the COVID-19 pandemic on human well-being fully heal. In the Asia-Pacific region, where 60 per cent of the world lives, the pandemic revealed chronic development ... <a title="Op-Ed: COVID19 a wake-up call to address development fault lines in Asia and the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/op-ed-covid19-a-wake-up-call-to-address-development-fault-lines-in-asia-and-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: COVID19 a wake-up call to address development fault lines in Asia and the Pacific">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2021
Op-Ed essay by Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, United Nations-Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) The COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented threat to development in the Asia-Pacific region that could reverse much of the hard-earned progress made in recent years. The good news is we ... <a title="Essay – Sustainable Development Goals can guide Asia-Pacific to build back better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/16/essay-sustainable-development-goals-can-guide-asia-pacific-to-build-back-better/" aria-label="Read more about Essay – Sustainable Development Goals can guide Asia-Pacific to build back better">Read more</a>
