Speech to the Auckland University of Technology Residential Course on Regional Development, Tatum Park, Levin, May 30. The author is an adjunct professor of the Institute for Public Policy at AUT.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Growth & Innovation;
Tonight I am going to talk about what New Zealand’s Economic Transformation might look like, and some of the things which need to happen in order to accomplish it. However, I need to begin with two caveats.
New Zealand Future Medicines Policy Summit, 29-30 May, 2006, Wellington
Keywords: Health;
My task is to set out briefly the issues that this panel of economists has been asked to address: whether the New Zealand health system is spending enough on pharmaceuticals. I’ll divide the answer into two. Is New Zealand spending enough on health care? Is New Zealand spending enough on pharmaceuticals in the health budget?
Should we have tax cuts without cutting government spending?
Listener: 20 May 2006.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
This columnist made himself highly unpopular in the 1980s by arguing for fiscal conservatism; ie, restraining the size of the government deficit between its revenue (mainly taxation) and government spending. Even the Treasury abandoned fiscal conservatism, arguing in 1984 that “with a floating exchange rate there is less risk that poor monetary and fiscal policies will impoverish those industries exposed to world trade while generating spiralling external debt”.
Presentation to a Leadership New Zealand seminar, 18 May 2006.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Governance;
I am working on a book, The Globalisation of Nations, sponsored by the Marsden Fund. As the title suggests I am concerned with both the process of globalisation and how that affects the nation-state. Today I begin by giving a brief overview of the economics of globalisation, but my main focus will be about its impact on the nation-state.
Shown at the 2006 Wellington Human Rights Film Festival. Comments while on a panel which followed the film.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
While the intended messages of the film are obvious enough, I want to comment on a few more subtle issues.
Listener: 6 May, 2006.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
In November 2001, trade ministers in Doha in the Arabian-Persian Gulf declared the next trade negotiations round to be a “development round”, aiming to enable the poor countries to experience “growth, development and prosperity”. But there were conflicting reasons for their vision.
This is a submission to the select committee considering the Electoral (Reduction in Number of Members of Parliament) Amendment Bill
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
1. I wish to make a submission on the Electoral (Reduction in Number of Members of Parliament) Amendment Bill. I do so because my book The Whimpering of the State: Policy After MMP, raised some matters which are pertinent to the deliberations of the committee.
Discussions on the effectiveness of the health system need to separate out the funding from the provision. The Labour Government has poured a lot of money into the public health system in recent years (the boost actually began earlier under the National-NZF coalition government in 1996), and it has been disappointed by the results. It has concluded that there is something wrong on the providing side.
This was prepared in May 2006 for a report on a Youth Labour Market Guarantee.
Keywords: Education; Growth & Innovation; Labour Studies;
Introduction.
This paper provides an environment in which any Youth Labour Market Guarantee package must function. It covers the Government Vision statement, the latest Department of Labour 2005 statement The Labour Market and Employment Strategy [...]
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