I keep coming back to this because the rationale given for cutting environment/ag research spending is we spend more than comparator countries, and the rationale for cutting social science research spending is that...we spend less than comparator countries, apparently. I mean, c'mon.
Dr Lucy Stewart
NZ currently spends about 3% of govt research funds on 'society'. That's a quarter of what comparable countries spend. And the recommendation of this report to the Prime Minister on research funding is to reduce that even further, to 1%. That's a twelfth of the 'competition'.
