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NZ$15/person still seems like a drop in the bucket out of a $3.2B budget, especially since it’s boosting the local economy rather than going out of the country.
by acdha 2y ago
NZ$15/person still seems like a drop in the bucket out of a $3.2B budget, especially since it’s boosting the local economy rather than going out of the country.
- dralley 2y agoIt's a bit more than 2% of the annual budget. How much higher should it go? There are tons of other things that need funding - healthcare (NZ has single-payer), coast guard / military, industrial / agricultural policy, environmental protection, etc.
- acdha 2y agoThe whole thing is a bit more, but much of that is not going to social sciences at all and a lot of things which are lumped together are useful - economics is a social science, for example, and if you search for the EHB code on the most recent awardees you’ll see that it includes things like studies on autism or suicide which seem pretty useful to me. https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportunities/marsden/awarded-grants/marsden-fund-awards-2024/ https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportu...