by Wendy McGuinness | Mar 5, 2014 | Project CivicsNZ
Kieran Stowers, one of the EmpowerNZ participants and a designer at both the LongTermNZ and LivingStandardsNZ workshops, has done a simply amazing job combining design, food and a constitutional conversation. I went to the opening of the exhibition of the 2013 Masters...
by Wendy McGuinness | Dec 20, 2013 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
The LivingStandardsNZ participants’ 2013 Youth Living Standards Framework and the YouTube video of the final presentation are now available! Twenty-eight young New Zealanders stress tested Treasury’s living standards framework in early December 2013 and...
by Wendy McGuinness | Dec 20, 2013 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
During our latest workshop LivingStandardsNZ, we were fortunate enough to have Dr John Fitzgerald from the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin Ireland, join us for pizza and a Q&A. Dr Fitzgerald was able to provide a global perspective, talking about...
by admin | Dec 17, 2013 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
While assisting with the LivingStandardsNZ Workshop, Diana Tam produced a working paper for the Institute, entitled Living the Good Life – Defining ‘living standards’, which is now available for download on the McGuinness Institute website. The working paper is...
by admin | Dec 13, 2013 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
We had a great week last week hosting 28 young New Zealanders, who came together to stress-test the Treasury’s Living Standard’s Framework. The Institute, in collaboration with the New Zealand Treasury, brought together 28 participants from all around New Zealand...
