Tax cuts without any pain? You’d have to be daft to have swallowed that. Listener: 27 January, 2007. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Nicky Hager’s The Hollow Men provides a fascinating insight into the realities of politics. A rich right-wing cabal got their man, Don Brash, into the leadership of the National Party. But the economic…
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Commentary on “Forging a Kiwi Economic Identity through Economic Transformation” by Trevor Mallard, Policy Quarterly, Volume 3, No 1, 2007. Keywords: Growth & Innovation; This paper responds to the Minister’s paper by providing a context in which the government’s economic transformation agenda operates. It argues that it is not a plan but a…
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Tiny Loans Are Making A Huge Difference for Some of the World’s Poorest Peoples Listener: 6 January, 2007. Keywords: Growth & Innovation; Macroeconomics & Money; The Nobel Memorial Prize in economics was founded by the Bank of Sweden in 1979. Economists have only been tangentially involved in Alfred Nobel’s much older awards for achievements which…
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