The Cook Strait ferry fiasco is just another symptom of a wider malaise: an inability to deliver, on time and at cost, the infrastructure that keeps the economy moving.
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Lowering spatial inequalities can reduce economic and social inequities.
Budget 2021 includes significant investment in Indigenous communities. Moving forward, post-pandemic recovery and future budgets need to address systemic inequalities.
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Executive Co-Director, UNU Hub on Empowering Communities to Adapt to Environmental Change, United Nations University; University of Calgary
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Senior Researcher in Development Economics, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Otago
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau