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ECON307: Economics: Public Sector Economics
(2019) Karacaoglu, Girol
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ECON307: Economics: Public Sector Economics
(Victoria University of Wellington, 2017) Karacaoglu, Girol
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From Complexity to Collaboration: Creating the New Zealand we want for ourselves, and enabling future generations to do the same for themselves
(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018) Eppel, Elizabeth; Provoost, Donna; Karacaoglu, Girol
The purpose of this paper is to change how we approach public policy and implementation for complex problems such as child poverty. The ultimate objective of public policy is to improve people’s lives and wellbeing, now and into the future. Traditional environmental, social and economic policies are clearly failing to generate the changes needed to address the persistent and increasing disadvantage facing many people and the communities they live in. This is unacceptable in a country as rich in human and natural resources as Aotearoa New Zealand. We propose a principles-based policy framework for complex social problems such child poverty. This approach will do more than embellish existing policy. It will help ensure that the intent of policy is realised, through a shared and explicit understanding and a commitment to achieving significant improvements. The government needs to rethink its various roles and consider how it enables local communities to be more transformative for children, their families, whānau and communities. We arrive at this conclusion through an analysis of how complex problems and uncertainty are best managed, and through considering some promising practices which suggest some common underpinning values and practices we can follow. In essence, we propose that the design and implementation process for public policy should be reconfigured to rest on a new set of principles, built on values of trust between government and other agents of change, and of valuing distributed community knowledge, resources and local solutions. This paper derives the following set of six principles from our understanding of the complexity of issues like child poverty, and from our consideration of previous attempts to work effectively in complex policy domains. The Government’s proposed legislation to set targets for ‘significant and sustained’ child poverty reduction, and the elevated focus of government agencies on effective interventions and on learning from locally-generated change, make the time ripe for advancing our thinking on these issues.
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Official statistics in the search for solutions for living with COVID-19 and its consequences
(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2020) Cook, Len; Gray, Alistair; Haslett, Steve; Lumley, Thomas; Mackie, Roger; Trewin, Dennis; Cope, Ian; Snively, Suzanne; Rosenberg, Bill; Karacaoglu, Girol; Yeabsley, John; Sutch, Hellen; Easton, Brian; Snorrason, Hallgrimur; Ljones, Olaf; Thygesen, Lars; Radermacher, Walter; Wilson, Nick; Holt, Tim; Pullinger, John; St John, Susan; Dunnett, Gary
The prolonged existence of COVID-19 and the consequential actions to manage it both nationally, regionally and internationally will provide national statistical offices with the greatest challenges that they might ever expect. There is much in common across statistical systems in the breadth of the expectations that are coming to be placed on them. Few countries will have the capacity to meet all these needs, or even plan for meeting them as they become recognised. This paper presents some personal views on how official statistics will need to change and foreshadows the range of influences on the context for which official statistical offices and international organisations need to plan for. The paper draws on experiences in New Zealand and focuses on aspects which have general applicability in other countries. All countries have some advantages and disadvantages that are unique to them, and those that have relevance to a study anchored in experiences in New Zealand are made clear. The central thrust of the paper is that national statistical offices need to be thinking now about the huge medium- and long-term influences that will shape what they need to change in their work.
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Official statistics in the search for solutions for living with COVID-19 and its consequences
(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2020) Cook, Len; Gray, Alistair; Haslett, Steve; Lumley, Thomas; Mackie, Roger; Trewin, Dennis; Cope, Ian; Snively, Suzanne; Rosenberg, Bill; Karacaoglu, Girol; Yeabsley, John; Sutch, Helen; Easton, Brian; Snorrason, Hallgrimur; Ljones, Olaf; Thygesen, Lars; Radermacher, Walter; Wilson, Nick; Holt, Tim; Pullinger, John; St John, Susan; Dunnett, Gary
The prolonged existence of COVID-19 and the consequential actions to manage it both nationally, regionally and internationally will provide national statistical offices with the greatest challenges that they might ever expect. There is much in common across statistical systems in the breadth of the expectations that are coming to be placed on them. Few countries will have the capacity to meet all these needs, or even plan for meeting them as they become recognised. This paper presents some personal views on how official statistics will need to change and foreshadows the range of influences on the context for which official statistical offices and international organisations need to plan for. The paper draws on experiences in New Zealand and focuses on aspects which have general applicability in other countries. All countries have some advantages and disadvantages that are unique to them, and those that have relevance to a study anchored in experiences in New Zealand are made clear. The central thrust of the paper is that national statistical offices need to be thinking now about the huge medium- and long-term influences that will shape what they need to change in their work.
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PUBL303: Public Policy: Public Sector Economics
(2019) Karacaoglu, Girol
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PUBL303: Public Policy: Public Sector Economics
(Victoria University of Wellington, 2017) Karacaoglu, Girol