In a series of speeches in 2015, the Minister of Finance, Bill English, and his Associate Minister, Paula Bennett, reiterated that the government was applying a ‘social investment’ approach to welfare. The Social Investment Unit of the State Services Commission was subsequently converted into a stand-alone Social Investment Agency, a website launched, and staff appointed.[i]
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[i] go to main content Killian Destremau and Peter Wilson, ‘Defining social investment, Kiwi-style’, in Jonathan Boston and Derek Gill, eds., Social Investment: A New Zealand Policy Experiment, Wellington, 2017, pp. 35–73, p. 36.