Who Guards the Guards? builds on the work of the New Zealand Productivity Commission in its 2014 report, Regulatory Institutions and Practices. That report found several systemic shortcomings in the governance and performance of our regulatory agencies.
Where the Productivity Commission’s 2014 report was general, ours is specific, drilling down to examine the performance of individual regulators.
We find serious shortcomings in the performance of some of our most important regulatory agencies.
The report includes data from a survey of New Zealand’s 200 largest businesses rating and ranking the performance of 24 regulatory agencies against 23 KPIs.
Who Guards the Guards? concludes with recommendations to strengthen both the expertise of our regulatory agencies and the checks and balances on the exercise of regulatory power.