New Zealand needs to prepare its economy to cope with more big supply shocks in coming years, the Productivity Commission warns in its last report. In the.
Former Productivity Commission staff are sad, but unsurprised, Act managed to convince its coalition partners to disestablish the agency it helped create in.
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Productivity Commission chair Dr Ganesh Nana’s combination of productivity and wellbeing is “arrant nonsense”, argues Damien Grant.
OPINION: It would make more sense for the conclave of cardinals to elevate the Archbishop of Canterbury as Pope than it did to appoint Dr Ganesh Nana as chair of the Productivity Commission. Nana is an accomplished academic. He has an impressive body of work behind him and shows no signs of running out of intellectual or physical steam, but he does not belong to the economic discipline for which the commission was established. The commission began life on the first of April 2011. It was forced on John Key by then Act leader Rodney Hide who, even then, was disillusioned with the lack of rigour in Key’s tepid administration.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Was the $14b wage subsidy well-spent?
18 Dec, 2020 04:37 AM
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The Warehouse is among the companies criticised for not repaying the subsidy. Photo / Tania Whyte
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ANALYSIS: New Zealand s $50 billion response to Covid-19 doled out millions for everything from apprenticeships to bird sanctuaries. But its centrepiece was the $14b wage subsidy which, in the dark days of April and May, underpinned the pay packets of more than half the country s workers. It eclipsed new provisions for health spending and border control, including managed isolation, and remains the single biggest line item in the extraordinary costs of 2020.