10 October, 2011
China generated half of global economic growth since 2008, helping to avoid a US and European recession turning into a depression. It may not be able to repeat the Houdini trick this time. And what will John Key's trick be without the magic of China?
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
10 October, 2011
Ultimately, a Robin Hood Tax is a great way to reduce budget deficits and reduce some of the risktaking on financial markets. It is also politically popular. If Australia goes with the tax, then New Zealand would seem to have no choice but follow.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
12 September, 2011
Our economic future is clearly in the China camp so we should care a lot more about the relationship between our currency and the Chinese Renminbi or yuan.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
08 September, 2011
A forest industry expo held in Rotorua has defied the economy with business numbers said to have exceeded expectations.
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Submitted by: Mike Smith | Categories: Economy, Industry, Trade
05 September, 2011
Older readers will remember a catchy tune released by The Vapours in 1980 called 'Turning Japanese'. It's a song many economists and central bankers are finding themselves humming at the moment - because many developed economies appear to be sliding into a Japanese-style slump.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
01 September, 2011
The Overseas Investment Office in New Zealand is closely following an investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission into the activities of Sino-Forest Corp. The allegations surround falsifying the valuation of forests, which the company has denied. The Chinese corporation has been involved in a series of transations involving a forest in New Zealand, which has seen these assets bunched with tropical forest logging concessions in Suriname for investment purposes.
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Submitted by: Mike Smith | Categories: Industry, Trade, Economy
19 August, 2011
Bank profitability in New Zealand is too high and we have to do something about it, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
19 August, 2011
Recent drama in the financial markets is really just the sound of investors waking up to some fundamental problems in the global economy, write Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
18 August, 2011
Richard Chandler, one of the two richest men in New Zealand, has taken a stake in a Chinese company under siege over allegations surrounding forestry valuations. The Singapore-based tycoon, said to be worth NZ$5.8 billion and only second to Graeme Hart on NBR's rich list, has taken a 15% stake in the troubled Sino-Forest, a Chinese forest plantation company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Sino-Forest has in the past year been involved in a $77 million forestry deal in New Zealand. Questions have been raised about aspects of the company's valuation processes.
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Submitted by: Mike Smith | Categories: Industry, Economy
07 August, 2011
Savers are being punished for the past sins of borrowers and the developed world faces a grinding, Japanese-style recovery, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
07 August, 2011
There is a perfect storm brewing for the New Zealand dollar but it's not the first time it's happened in the world and we don't just have to sit here and take it, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
24 July, 2011
If only New Zealand had a national 'dumb debt' feedback loop we might actually have a chance of turning around the economy, writes economics commentator Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
18 June, 2011
When borrowers and savers see the latest Greek riots or pictures of stressed stock market traders they should also think about a potential rise in borrowing costs and a possible slump in the global economy.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
18 June, 2011
For New Zealand's future, we need some long term strategy to build high-paid and interesting jobs that earn foreign exchange revenues so we can start growing our wealth as a country.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
07 June, 2011
Let's not beat about the bush here. Our government is likely to borrow NZ$20 billion or the equivalent of 10% of GDP this year. It is cracking down on all sorts of spending. So why are we subsidising a bunch of sports bureaucrats?
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Rugby
26 May, 2011
The government has forecast a return to budget surplus by 2014/15 and the creation of 170,000 jobs. Here are five reasons why those forecasts are not believable, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
10 May, 2011
In Britain, America and Europe, the public mood over tax cheats is turning feral and the powers-that-be are responding. What are we doing in New Zealand?
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
04 May, 2011
Our government should be using tax increases such as the one deferred this week to gradually adjust New Zealanders to permanently higher oil prices rather than focusing on its election prospects, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
21 April, 2011
If our government is serious about transforming this economy into an export powerhouse it must act to restrain the currency and the foreign borrowing, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
14 April, 2011
The shock of the GST increase, on top of rising food and petrol prices, has forced New Zealand consumers deeper into their spending shells, writes business commentator Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
07 April, 2011
South Canterbury Finance and AMI Insurance shared many things, besides the fact they were deemed 'Too Big To Fail', writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
30 March, 2011
Our output did not increase in the second half of last year yet our spending in total and our wages rose over that period, as did population and spending per capita. So how did we manage that?
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Columns, Economy
20 March, 2011
New Zealand has just received an economy-wide bill shock. As if out of the blue, prices for many everyday items just went up. It may not be reflected in the inflation figures yet, but consumers are reeling from the impact.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Personal Finance
07 March, 2011
Wholesale interest rates could rebound in the coming weeks if they are disappointed by a Reserve Bank decision to leave rates on hold. That might make the low one year rate attractive in the short term. But should those who have chosen to float over the last year jump back into a fixed mortgage?
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Property
01 March, 2011
This earthquake should really be seen as a national day of reckoning when we finally decided to sacrifice some consumption to save and rebuild the economy, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, New Zealand
27 February, 2011
In the wake of the Christchurch earthquake, some bank economists have called on the Reserve Bank to cut the official cash rate (OCR) to help revive an economy in crisis. Bernard Hickey gives his view.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
08 February, 2011
Goff's call for a new tax rate will continue to strike a nerve among voters and fiscal strategists in years to come as the gap widens between middle income earners and the wealthiest, and as deficits become endemic.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
02 February, 2011
Finally, there is now a clear set of battle lines between the two major political parties ahead of this year's election. It will be fought over the issues of foreign debt and income inequality, both of which are the major issues facing most developed countries in the post-Global Financial Crisis era.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Politics & Government
29 January, 2011
Africa has substantial renewable energy resources, most of which are underexploited. As the drive for clean energy grows, renewable energy technologies are expected to play a significant role in the continent’s energy sector and could well underpin growth in the region in the longer term.
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Submitted by: Sharon Davis | Categories: Economy, Energy & Minerals
20 January, 2011
New Zealand's ironsands contain up to 10% titanium. The metal has some interesting properties and there's new ways of using it. Bay of Plenty is pitching itself as a titanium powder manufacturing centre of excellence. Why should we be interested?
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Submitted by: Peter Kerr | Categories: Economy, Industry, Science & Technology
18 January, 2011
Business is booming for Khadija Ahmed, the female owner of the only sex store in the Arab world.
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Submitted by: Matthew Hall | Categories: Economy, Management, Small Business, Trade, Asia, Features , Fashion, Families , Asia, Business, Features
18 January, 2011
Facebook Founder Chris Hughes has launched Jumo, a social network that links individuals with charities, volunteer opportunities, NGOs, and causes. He discusses Facebook, The Social Network film, working for US President Barack Obama, and his own motivation.
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Submitted by: Matthew Hall | Categories: Features , Science & Technology, Management, Economy, Industry, Ad/Media
20 December, 2010
The New Zealand government seems to be taking a young man's approach to debt at the moment and this is a dangerous thing to do as we age not-so-gracefully in an increasingly volatile economic world.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
14 December, 2010
'The irony for the Reserve Bank is that this week's Monetary Policy Statement made clear that its monetary stimulus of a low Official Cash Rate is not having as much effect as expected because home owners are not adding to their already crushing debts.'
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
08 December, 2010
In recent weeks something has started brewing again out in the depths of the New Zealand economy and it smells disappointingly familiar. The housing market has started to simmer again,and many of the same problems are repeating themselves, writes business commentator Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Property, Columns
03 December, 2010
The OECD has highlighted a loophole in New Zealand's agricultural risk policies costing taxpayers millions of dollars, as seen by the recent multi-million dollar bill for the damage to kiwifruit from the PSA virus.
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Submitted by: Mike Smith | Categories: Economy
30 November, 2010
The pros and cons of an interest tax break for New Zealanders, by Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy
23 November, 2010
It's like the good old days all over again. Or the bad old days, depending on who you are, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Property, Columns
15 November, 2010
How can New Zealand possibly rebalance our economy when our high value export sector is being demolished and businesses are not borrowing and investing?
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
12 November, 2010
There's a lot going on behind the headlines in the Currency Wars that New Zealanders and their policymakers need to know about and prepare for, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, New Zealand
09 November, 2010
New Zealanders have lost faith in financial advisors. That's the clear message in RaboDirect's Financial Confidence index for September, which showed confidence dropping again from a year ago, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
31 October, 2010
The drama around Warner Bros' decision to film the Hobbit movies in New Zealand was focused on the union blacklist, but the drumbeat of background noise was all about the New Zealand dollar's rise vs the US dollar, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
25 October, 2010
Confidence and trust in the financial architecture of a nation is a delicate and ephemeral thing. It's also crucial to the long term sustainability of any modern economy and society, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
17 October, 2010
The 'new normal' is beginning to dawn on consumers and borrowers before it dawns on policymakers and the media, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
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Submitted by: Carlos Alejandro Falcó Chang | Categories: Economy, Illustrations
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Submitted by: Carlos Alejandro Falcó Chang | Categories: Economy, Illustrations
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Submitted by: Carlos Alejandro Falcó Chang | Categories: Economy, Trade, Illustrations
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Submitted by: Carlos Alejandro Falcó Chang | Categories: Economy, Cartoons
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Submitted by: Carlos Alejandro Falcó Chang | Categories: Economy, Americas, Illustrations
10 October, 2010
It's worth looking at the economic forces behind China's great land grab that are creating such turmoil in global capital and currency markets. They highlight a great clash between the forces of capitalism and nationalism and between a rising global power in China and a declining global power in America, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Columns, Economy, Asia, New Zealand
06 October, 2010
The efficient market hypothesis has been proved wrong. We now face international currency wars, mass money printing and the eventual restructuring of the global currency landscape, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Politics & Government, Columns
03 October, 2010
New Zealanders and our policymakers seem remarkably relaxed about the implications of the turmoil that threatens to push our currency through 80 USc in the coming months and destroy any exporters that are not reliant on booming commodity prices, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Columns, Economy
30 September, 2010
It's time for me to recant and to say what I've been thinking for months: the economic god of completely free markets and capital flows is not worth believing in anymore and we must look for other things to believe in and do.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Columns, Economy, Politics & Government
24 September, 2010
Greek flag falling from Europe washing line; an illustration by Falco.
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Submitted by: Carlos Alejandro Falcó Chang | Categories: Economy, Europe, Illustrations
20 September, 2010
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but when various small town electricity networks get the priority nod for negotiations with Crown Fibre Holdings for involvement in the Government’s flagship broadband programme, a suspicious person smells a rat.
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Submitted by: Pattrick Smellie | Categories: Columns, Industry, Economy
20 September, 2010
Alan Bollard has essentially told us that the economy is all about the debt. Politics may also soon become all about the debt too, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Columns, Economy, Politics & Government
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Columns, Politics & Government, Economy
17 September, 2010
Bill English bails out SCF. A news cartoon by Dave Wolland.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Politics & Government, Economy, Cartoons
07 September, 2010
The creation of the 'Save our Farms' campaign to block foreign ownership of New Zealand farm land has fired up a debate that needs to be had, writes business commentator Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Farming, Columns
25 August, 2010
Starting a business in New Zealand is easy - the World Bank tells us we are the best around in their Doing Business rankings. But we can do even better, let's put three new things on the companies website: standard documents, official shareholder registers and basic governance tools.
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Submitted by: Lance Wiggs | Categories: Economy, Industry, Small Business, Management, Columns
22 August, 2010
The issue of whether to make KiwiSaver compulsory is now firmly on the agenda after Prime Minister John Key gave the green light for a government-sanctioned Pensions and Saving Working group to look at the issue. But is New Zealand ready and willing, asks Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Politics & Government, Economy, Columns
10 August, 2010
A caricature of Sam Knowles, by Murray Webb. Dozens of other caricatures available. Want to commission a caricature from Murray? Email julie@allaboutthestory.com for details.
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Submitted by: murray webb | Categories: Economy, Caricatures
05 August, 2010
For as long as I can remember, there's been national angst over what to do about superannuation. But the best remedy has always been to... make the economy grow faster, writes Pattrick Smellie.
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Submitted by: Pattrick Smellie | Categories: Economy, Columns, Economy
05 August, 2010
For as long as I can remember, there's been national angst over what to do about superannuation. But the best remedy has always been to... make the economy grow faster, writes Pattrick Smellie.
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Submitted by: Pattrick Smellie | Categories: Economy, Columns, Economy
03 August, 2010
Academic debates about history and economics send most people to sleep very quickly. It's like Mogadon without the drugs. But what if you could be more confident about fixing or floating your mortgage if you knew who would win these debates?
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns, Economy
03 August, 2010
Academic debates about history and economics send most people to sleep very quickly. It's like Mogadon without the drugs. But what if you could be more confident about fixing or floating your mortgage if you knew who would win these debates?
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns, Economy
26 July, 2010
We have two Chinese New Zealand MPs but we don't have Chinese faces on our television. There is no Mandarin spoken on National Radio or National television. Yet mandarin is set to become our second most spoken language within 15 years, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Education, Economy, Columns, Economy
26 July, 2010
We have two Chinese New Zealand MPs but we don't have Chinese faces on our television. There is no Mandarin spoken on National Radio or National television. Yet mandarin is set to become our second most spoken language within 15 years, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Education, Economy, Columns, Economy
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Politics & Government, Economy, Cartoons
07 June, 2010
It's quite possible that this time next week when you sit down to read your paper with a cup of coffee and some toast that you'll be asking yourself whether you can still afford the coffee and toast.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns, Property
18 May, 2010
The illusion of easy money has consequences. A news cartoon about Chinese farm purchases, by Dave Wolland.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Economy, Farming, Cartoons
18 May, 2010
Letting others gamble with your export returns. A news cartoon by Dave Wolland.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Economy, Cartoons
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Economy, Cartoons
10 May, 2010
Introducing the idea of exchange rate parity as a way to create fair and free trade between nations.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Economy, Viewpoints
10 May, 2010
What with drought, floods and fluctuating exchanges rates, many dairy farmers in are now having to think about where Fonterra is heading again. The prospect of a rapid increase in farm ownership by foreign businesses has also crept back onto the radar and this issue will be a mixed blessing for those starting up or leaving the industry.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Columns, Economy, Farming
10 February, 2010
Here's a useful article that serves as a primer for understanding GDP data. It tells you how to analyse, interpret, and source GDP data - and why it's important to do so...
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Submitted by: Econ Grapher | Categories: Economy
02 January, 2010
A recent research report, looking at the reasons for New Zealand’s relatively poor economic performance, has some fascinating theories as to why we have paradoxically lagged behind other developed nations despite many structural advantages. It also raise questions about whether aiming for “productivity” parity with Australia is the right goal for New Zealand.
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Submitted by: Paul Spence | Categories: Economy
14 October, 2011
Government moves to reign in the sale of industrial certified emission reduction units (CERs) risk introducing an element of isolationism to the New Zealand carbon credits market.
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Submitted by: Mike Smith | Categories: Economy, Industry, Property
