Insights
Thankfully, a boring budget
Bill English has delivered a solid, unspectacular and sober budget. And there is nothing wrong with that. Unless you are a gallery journalist.
Month: May 2016
Interest.co.nz
Friday’s Top 10
Reflections on going to France if you want to work less, Don Brash’s take on monetary policy when inflation won’t budge, the economics of love, Vietnam’s openness to the free market & more.
Other publications
NZ gets no-nonsense, no-fuss budget with a surplus on top
If there is one art Prime Minister John Key’s New Zealand government has mastered, it is expectation management. So for its eighth budget, delivered yesterday, expectations were low. Hence nobody was disappointed when Minister of Finance Bill English delivered it.
Insights
The greatest business opportunity of the 21st century
The narrative of Africa as a crisis-prone economic backwater has a long history. But it no longer matches its present. And it will not be the continent’s future.
National Business Review
Why Africa’s rise matters
Kenya is not South Korea. But it or some other Sub-Saharan country could be the next growth miracle that no-one saw coming – until it happened.
National Business Review
Brexit’s history lessons
A British withdrawal from the emerging EU superstate would be a strong move toward a more competitive Europe. It would be a Europe returning to the strengths of its diversity. Even if Niall Ferguson does not agree.