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Article: Technical and Scale Efficiency of Vocational Education and Training Institutions: The Case of the New Zealand Polytechnics.
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- New Zealand Economic Papers
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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During the 1980s and 1990s there has been a great deal of concern expressed amongst policy makers about the relatively slow growth rate of the New Zealand economy. In response to these concerns the New Zealand Government embarked upon an ambitious program of macroeconomic and microeconomic reform designed to help raise the rate of New Zealand's productivity growth. This involved, amongst other things, the floating of the New Zealand dollar, financial market deregulation, a gradual reduction of industry and agricultural protection, the privatisation of major government utilities and finally in the early 1990s reform of the labour market. Reform of the provision of tertiary ...