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TPG24-28 First Nations Investment Framework

The First Nations Investment Framework is a guide to good practice in working with First Nations people and communities on the design, appraisal and evaluation of initiatives.

TRP 24-25 Examining the macroeconomic costs of occupational entry regulations

This paper quantifies the stringency of occupational entry regulations (OER) across a sample of occupations in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. It then assesses the impact of OER stringency on measures of economic dynamism to help understand their economic costs.

TRP23-05 First Nations Women’s Economic Participation Review: Pathways to Prosperity

The First Nations Women’s Economic Participation Strategy provides a baseline of current First Nations women’s economic participation and identifies five priorities to empower First Nations women to realise their economic potential.

TRP23-07 Trends in productivity: What should we expect?

This paper tests whether an additive growth model explains productivity growth better than the exponential growth model typically used and explores some of the implications of using an additive model.

TPG23-08 NSW Government Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a holistic appraisal method that estimates the economic, social, environmental and cultural costs and benefits of an initiative and expresses them in monetary terms.

TPG22-22 Policy and Guidelines: Evaluation

These Policy and Guidelines set out mandatory requirements, recommendations and guidance for NSW General Government Sector agencies and other government entities to plan for and conduct the evaluation of policies, projects, regulations, and programs.

TRP22-31 First Nations Business Sector Technical Research Paper

The inaugural First Nations Business Sector Technical Research Paper provides the first New South Wales-specific analysis of the size and nature of the First Nations business sector and sets a baseline against which the sector’s growth can be measured over time

TRP22-18 Property Tax Reform and Home Ownership

This paper examines the potential increase in home ownership that could arise if the NSW Government replaced stamp duty and the existing land tax with a broad-based property tax levied on unimproved land values. 

TRP22-13 Holding periods of residential property buyers in NSW

The purpose of this paper is to provide information about how long purchasers hold residential property. The paper estimates probability distributions that indicate the likelihood that a property will be sold in each year of ownership.

TPP21-10 Accounting for Financial Instruments

This Policy provides guidance to agencies in applying AASB 9 Financial Instruments and AASB 132 Financial Instruments: Presentation, including:

• likely classification of financial instruments
• impairment of financial assets, and
• hedge accounting.