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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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April 22, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Stories last week from Radio New Zealand: Expert analysis: low interest rates vs soaring house prices, Nine to Noon, 15 April 2021. And refer to: Arthur Grimes: How to fix a broken Auckland? Add 150,000 homes to crash prices by 40%; The Spinoff, 4 July 2016 Bernard Hickey: PM says Arthur ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Money, Housing, and King Canute" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/22/keith-rankin-analysis-money-housing-and-king-canute/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Money, Housing, and King Canute">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Essay by Keith Rankin. Getting the Language Correct Aotearoa New Zealand has a housing problem; a very big housing problem, and a problem not unique to New Zealand. While political leaders and privileged commentators do acknowledge the problem, the discussion remains befuddled, presumably largely because of the compromised political and financial interests of those who ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Solving the Housing Crisis: Making Homes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/keith-rankin-essay-solving-the-housing-crisis-making-homes/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Solving the Housing Crisis: Making Homes">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>
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February 22, 2021
Essay by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP. The past year is one that few of us will forget. While the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have played out unevenly across Asia and the Pacific, the region has been spared many of the worst effects seen in other ... <a title="Essay: Sustainable energy key to COVID-19 recovery in Asia and the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/22/essay-sustainable-energy-key-to-covid-19-recovery-in-asia-and-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Essay: Sustainable energy key to COVID-19 recovery in Asia and the Pacific">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Article by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP Tomorrow (February 19) marks the entry into force of a new international agreement promoting paperless trade, a timely reminder of how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought digital solutions to regional development challenges into the limelight. Paperless trade across borders has ... <a title="Op-Ed: Accelerating Trade Digitalization in Times of the Pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/op-ed-accelerating-trade-digitalization-in-times-of-the-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Accelerating Trade Digitalization in Times of the Pandemic">Read more</a>
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December 27, 2020
OBITUARY: By Scott Waide in Lae For many Papua New Guineans, Sir Mekere Morauta will be remembered as the straight shooting politician and the reformist Prime Minister, whose work came to be appreciated more than a decade later. Up until the 1990s, Mekere Morauta’s public life was rather low key. He thrived behind the scenes, ... <a title="Sir Mekere, PNG’s straight shooting and reformist prime minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/27/sir-mekere-pngs-straight-shooting-and-reformist-prime-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Sir Mekere, PNG’s straight shooting and reformist prime minister">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2020
Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Pacific Island Developing State of Vanuatu has emerged as one of the region’s great success stories. Vanuatu has joined the ranks of Samoa and the Maldives as one of only six countries to graduate from being a least developed country, since the category ... <a title="Asia Pacific – Celebrating Vanuatu’s path to sustainable development" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/09/asia-pacific-celebrating-vanuatus-path-to-sustainable-development/" aria-label="Read more about Asia Pacific – Celebrating Vanuatu’s path to sustainable development">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. To understand the world we live in, it is important to read books written in different time periods. Older literature does not have access to the latest research and currently fashionable tropes, and they may include some expressions that would be censured today as sexist or racist or similar. All periods ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Microbes and Macrobes; lessons from biology and history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/keith-rankin-analysis-microbes-and-macrobes-lessons-from-biology-and-history/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Microbes and Macrobes; lessons from biology and history">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. To the surprise of most pundits, substantial real estate price inflation has resumed, after a hiatus from 2017 to 2019. As to be expected, most of the usual tropes have been employed: a lack of supply, immigration (in this latest case returning New Zealanders), and low interest rates. The only missing ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Fixing the 2020 New Zealand House Price Bubble" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/23/keith-rankin-analysis-fixing-the-2020-new-zealand-house-price-bubble/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Fixing the 2020 New Zealand House Price Bubble">Read more</a>
