New Zealand’s history of inflation, recessions and unemployment offer clues to what might happen next. Coupled with global events, the outlook is not promising.
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Compared with other OECD nations, Australians pay much less tax than some headline statistics suggest.
The 2020 “Rebuilding Together” budget rightly targets a looming unemployment crisis, but just how bad that will be remains uncertain.
Jacinda Ardern has won global admiration for her personal style. But how will Kiwis judge her government at the ballot-box in September this year – just as unemployment is expected to peak?
New Zealanders and struggling media companies are paying the price for an unwillingness to tax the tech giants’ local profits.
New Zealand’s 2020 “pandemic budget” should shift spending priorities towards a flexible and targeted approach to economic recovery.
New Zealand’s 2020 budget must not only provide economic hope, it must balance the very different ideologies and aspirations of two earlier historic budgets.
Talks about creating a trans-Tasman bubble have focused on kick-starting short-term economic activity through tourism. But Australia and NZ could also increase manufacturing and trade integration.
The international tourism crisis offers New Zealand the opportunity to reimagine domestic tourism - if operators and consumers can adapt.
New Zealand will spend NZ$12.1 billion – or 4% of its GDP – to support businesses, increase benefits for seniors and low-income families, pay people in self-isolation, and boost health care capacity.
So far, New Zealand exporters have not been affected by the trade war between the US and China, but the Hong Kong crisis could easily embroil any foreign company.
New Zealand’s coalition government in its first budget has treated public policies as investments, with the goal of improving social and environmental outcomes.
Top contributors
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Associate professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Public Policy , Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Research Assistant, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor Emeritus of Tourism, Auckland University of Technology
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Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Waikato
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Senior lecturer, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Visiting Scholar in Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Senior research fellow, Nord University
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Professor of History, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Chair in Public Finance, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Lecturer/ Assistant Professor, Macquarie University
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Professor of Macroeconomics, Head of School of Economics and Finance, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Public Sector Management, Monash University
