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SMELLING A RAT

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 policies [...]

27th January 2007 | Comments Closed

TRANSFORMING AN ECONOMY

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 framework for the coherent [...]

26th January 2007 | Comments Closed

NOBEL ENTERPRISE

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 [...]

6th January 2007 | Comments Closed