Others are also recognising the importance of Te Ōhanga Maori. A recent survey found that funding and access to capital were two of the greatest challenges faced by Māori businesses.
This was supported by the Productivity Commission’s report ‘New Zealand firms: Reaching for 9 2/5  BIS central bankers' speeches  the frontier’.9 We want to learn more about how factors like collective land ownership and lower home ownership, and systematic bias might be affecting the rates at which Māori businesses access debt and other forms of financing.