scholarly journals Maori Economic Development - Te Ohanga Whanaketanga Maori

Author(s):  
B.D. Parker

In 2003 the NZ Institute of Economic Research, in collaboration with Te Puni Kokiri, produced a report entitled Maori Economic Development. This report had the goal of bringing together different strands of analysis in a single overview of the Maori economy, and providing new insights on approaches to Maori development. The objective was to find a way to think about the Maori economy in the same way that we think about the New Zealand, or any other, national economy. As a result of preparing a series of research papers on different aspects of Maori economic development, the report is able to provide useful insights: • For Maori, on the things Maori organisations can do to enhance their economic development prospects - in particular, investment in high quality governance is the most critical next stage of development, which must be guided by Maori; • For New Zealand businesses, on the opportunities available to them to transact with, and invest in, the emerging Maori economy; and • For the Government , on the broad direction of policies which would enhance Maori economic development. In par ticular , the government's interest in Maori development is not just about social responsibility or Treaty of Waitangi risk management. Rather, it is a policy area with significant potential to enhance New Zealand's overall economic performance.

1977 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-114
Author(s):  
Abdur Razzaq Shahid

This volume on India is one of a series of research projects on exchange control, liberalization, and economic development, undertaken for many less developed countries. The study deals with three major topics: exchange control, liberalization, and growth. First, under 'The Anatomy of Exchange Control', the methods of allocation and intervention in the foreign trade and payments practised by the government during the restrictive period 1956-66 and their economic impact are discussed. Then, a detailed analysis of the 'Liberalization Episode' which covers the policies in the period 1966-68, including the June 1966 devaluation, and the episode's effect on price level, economic activity, and exports is given. Finally, the overall growth effects of the foreign trade regime (broadly defined as exchange rate policy plus the frame-work of relevant domestic policies such as industrial licensing), and their possible contribution to India's rather unsatisfactory economic performance are examined.


2019 ◽  
pp. 49-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. E. Belova ◽  
L. G. Vorona-Slivinskaya ◽  
E. V. Voskresenskaya

The presented study aims to examine the current state and development prospects of self-regulation in the Russian construction industry.Aim. The study aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the current state and development prospects of self-regulation as an institution of public administration, identify the problems of self-regulation in the construction industry, and formulate proposals on solving the identified problems.Tasks. The authors complete the following tasks to achieve the set aim: examine the regulatory framework of the activities of self-regulatory organizations in the construction industry — construction, design, and engineering surveying; analyze the current state and positive trends of self-regulation in the field of construction; identify problems in the activities of self-regulatory organizations in the construction industry — construction, design, and engineering surveying — and development prospects of the examined alternative to government regulation.Methods. The methodological basis of the study comprises the fundamental provisions of the modern economic theory, theories of public and municipal administration and legal sciences. The information base includes regulatory and legal acts of the Russian Federation on self-regulation in the construction industry, data from the State Register of Self-Regulatory Organizations, and statistics in the field of construction.Results. At the current stage of development of self-regulation in the construction industry, the most efficient mechanism for this institution involves guaranteed compensation for damage caused due to shortcomings in the works and services during construction, renovation, capital repairs of construction objects, engineering surveying, design. The victims should be compensated not out of insurance payments under civil insurance contracts, but rather out of the compensation funds of self-regulatory organizations.Conclusion. This study makes it possible to assess the institution of self-regulation in the construction industry — construction, design, and engineering surveying — as an efficient institution for proper protection of the interests of consumers of construction works and services and those of the government. 


Author(s):  
Myra J. Tait ◽  
Kiera L. Ladner

AbstractIn Canada, Treaty 1 First Nations brought a claim against the Crown for land debt owed to them since 1871. In 2004, Crown land in Winnipeg became available that, according to the terms of the settlement, should have been offered for purchase to Treaty 1 Nations. Similarly, in New Zealand, the Waikato-Tainui claim arose from historical Crown breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. In 1995, a settlement was reached to address the unjust Crown confiscation of Tainui lands. Despite being intended to facilitate the return of traditional territory, compensate for Crown breaches of historic treaties, and indirectly provide opportunity for economic development, in both cases, settlement was met with legal and political challenges. Using a comparative legal analysis, this paper examines how the state continues to use its law-making power to undermine socio-economic development of Indigenous communities in Canada and New Zealand, thereby thwarting opportunity for Indigenous self-determination.


2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 563
Author(s):  
Ned Fletcher ◽  
Dame Sian Elias

In Busby v White, James Busby sought to challenge the validity of the Land Claims Ordinance 1841 which treated his pre-Treaty of Waitangi land purchases as "null and void". He had campaigned against the New South Wales statute which preceded the Ordinance, and throughout the 1840s continued to argue against the legislation through political channels, while maintaining his claim to hold the lands under his "native title". By the 1850s holding by "native title" was increasingly precarious as the Government moved to acquire Busby's lands for the purposes of settlement. Busby was forced to law. His aim was to set up the validity of the legislation as a question of law which could be taken to the Privy Council for authoritative resolution. Busby v White was the second attempt to establish a platform for appeal. As in his earlier claim, Busby v McKenzie, the Supreme Court avoided a determination on the merits, thus thwarting Busby's strategy of appealing to London. Although no substantive decision was delivered, the extensive argument was fully reported in The Southern Cross newspaper, from which the Lost Cases Project has recovered it. Its interest today is in arguments which question the course set by R v Symonds (1847) on the nature of native property in New Zealand and the subsequent relegation of the Treaty of Waitangi to legal limbo in Wi Parata v Bishop of Wellington (1877).


2020 ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
Anna Liubchych

Problem setting. One of the most important problems and obstacles to the innovative development there is an uncoordinated work of the government to identify and approve at the legislative level the main means of stimulating innovation. Target of research is to analyze some types of stimulation of innovation activities implemented in foreign countries. Disclosure of some features of the current legislation on stimulating innovation. Analysis of resent researches and publications. Problems of innovative activity are devoted to research of a number of well-known domestic and foreign scientists-lawyers and economists: Atamanova Yu.E., Balueva O.V., Berensa V., Burman G., Davydyuk O.M., Didenko N.G., Emelianova V.M., Goncharova Yu.V., Grechan A.P., Kvasnitskaya R.S., Mavroediya E., Ravski T., Remenprit K., Vashchuk N.F., Vlasova V., Voynarenko M.P., Zadikhayla D.V., Zafara A., Zaytseva L.O., Zhornokia Yu.M., however some questions of the problem still need clarification. Article’s main body. Over the past 30 years, a global consensus has emerged on the importance of innovation as the primary means of addressing economic development, health, national security and environmental issues. Many of the world’s leading countries are making unprecedented investments in promoting innovation through increased R&D funding and ongoing support from universities and innovative small and large enterprises. They implement new programs and public-private partnerships to stimulate the commercialization of new ideas in the market. There are eight effective incentives for innovation that are used by many countries, including: incentives for corporations investing in R&D; incentives to create R&D centers; technological zones; support for company modernization; support for innovative exports; government grants and preferential loans; support for innovative public procurement; patent boxes. Regarding the legislative aspect of promoting innovation in Ukraine, the following should be noted. The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine participates in the development of sectoral and crosssectoral export strategies. The corresponding initiative is foreseen in the Export Strategy of Ukraine (“Road Map” of Strategic Trade Development) for 2017-2021, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1017-r of 27.12.2017. Our state is taking some steps to stimulate innovation. However, the means enshrined in Ukrainian law have a very narrow range of influence on real relations. Tax and other benefits introduced at the end of the last century have been abolished. State guarantees for innovation are declarative in nature. The National Innovation System of Ukraine requires comprehensive use of all possible incentives. Conclusions and prospects for the development. Venture financing, which is effectively used by a number ofdeveloped countries in the world, should become an important area of development of the ID financing system in Ukraine. The key to the development of the venture capital market is the active position of the state on its support. In Ukraine, considering that venture capital investment is at an early stage of development, it is advisable, in our view, to develop a comprehensive State program for the development of venture investment in Ukraine, which has been repeatedly emphasized by scientists and practitioners. This program should include measures both for the development of information support for innovative businesses, for improving the regulatory framework of venture capital activities, and, last but not least, for a complex of tax incentives, as well as for the state’s direct involvement in financing venture investments.


2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 865
Author(s):  
Phil Parkinson

The Treaty of Waitangi conferred upon Her Majesty's new subjects "all the rights andprivileges of British subjects" and that included, in theory, the right to be represented in the infantgovernment. In practice, however, the right of Maori to vote in elections was not taken seriouslyuntil 1858 and the presence of formally elected members in the House of Representatives was not achieved until August 1868. When they did speak in 1868 the first four Maori members spoke inMaori, and no adequate provision was made for the translation of their words, or for the words ofother members to be translated for them. The proceedings of the House were not printed in Maoriand the Maori members' speeches were not translated except when it suited the government of theday.Over the next few decades after 1868 there was only an irregular compliance with the standingorders of the House of Representatives and the Legislative Council that Bills and Acts be prepared inboth Maori and English for the better information of "Her Majesty's subjects of the Native Race".This study traces the extent of the use of the Maori language in the House and in the Council andpoints to a large number of extant Bills and Acts in Maori as well as to the large number whichhave not survived but which are referred to in the New Zealand parliamentary debates. These little-known texts deserve recognition as expressions of legislation in an indigenous tongue reflectingindigenous concerns but they have usually been disregarded in a European-dominated GeneralAssembly.


Author(s):  
Sue Scheele

The Nagoya Protocol is a recent binding international instrument that articulates the need to recognise the rights of indigenous peoples regarding their biological resources and cultural knowledge and strengthens the mechanisms to do so. New Zealand has not signed this protocol because of the overriding importance of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand’s domestic affairs, and the need to ensure that government options are not limited concerning the development of domestic policy on access to biological resources. In particular, policy makers and legislators are waiting for the government response to a 2011 Waitangi Tribunal report (Ko Aotearoa Tēnei) on a far-reaching and complex claim (WAI 262) concerning the place of Māori traditional knowledge, culture and identity in contemporary New Zealand law and government policies and practice. Especially pertinent to this paper is the report’s section on Māori rights relating to biological and genetic resources. In accordance with the recommendation within Ko Aotearoa Tēnei, the principle of partnership, built on the explicit Treaty premise of Crown and Māori as formal equals, is presented here as the overarching framework and mechanism by which government agencies and Māori can work together to safeguard such resources. Core concepts and values are elucidated that underpin the Māori relationship to indigenous flora and fauna and are integral to the protection of cultural knowledge of seeds and plants. Examples are given of plant species regarded as taonga (treasures) and how they are conserved, and a case study is presented of institutional stewardship of harakeke (New Zealand flax) weaving varieties. Seed bank facilities are also evaluated regarding their incorporation of Māori values and rights under the Treaty of Waitangi.


Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mutu

This article considers research conducted on the impact of the Crown’s treaty claims settlement policy on Māori in New Zealand. It provides a brief background to the Treaty of Waitangi and the subsequent British colonisation process that relied on the Doctrine of Discovery in breach of the treaty. It outlines how colonisation dispossessed Māori of 95 percent of their lands and resources, usurped Māori power and authority and left them in a state of poverty, deprivation and marginalisation while procuring considerable wealth, prosperity and privilege for British settlers. The work of the Waitangi Tribunal, the commission of inquiry set up to investigate those breaches, is considered, as is the Crown’s reaction to the 1987 Lands case in developing its treaty claims settlement policy. The Crown unilaterally imposed the policy despite vehement opposition from Māori. Since 1992, it has legislated more than seventy ‘settlements’. The research shows that overall, the process has traumatised claimants, divided their communities, and returned on average less than one percent of their stolen lands. Proposals for constitutional transformation have drawn widespread support from Māori as a solution to British colonisation. United Nations treaty-monitoring bodies have recommended that the government discuss this with Māori.


2019 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 322-340
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Sikora

The purpose of this article is to analyse and describe fundamental individual rights in relation to the Constitution of Sweden and New Zealand. Basic human rights include the right to dignity, right to liberty and the right to equality. Everyone is equally entitled regardless of origin, race, gender or education. Based on the analysis of several acts concerning the constitutional legislation of both countries it is evident that there is a lack of uniformity the nature of these have been complex and difficult to convey. Concerning Sweden, the Constitution consists of four acts in which the act of government includes standards governing and representing protection of the rights a liberty of a citizen. Constitutional legislation of New Zealand is more complicated because it consists of the Treaty of Waitangi 1840, The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, numerous laws, statutes setting up by the New Zealand Parliament as well as numerous constitutional customs, which may constitute legal standards and translate into precedent acts of courts. Despite the daily violation of rights in both Sweden and New Zealand, the complex legal systems protect and secure the rights of the people in their countries by introducing a series of laws and other regulations. The government of both countries, as well as public authority and other non-governmental organisations do their best to ensure they are respected and not violated. It should be noted that both Sweden and New Zealand have proven to comply with the obligations imposed on them under their national and international obligations with some undoubtable success, with generally well accepted principles in the whole civilised world.


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