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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.
Year: 2016
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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.
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The next crisis, sooner or later
Have the responses to the Global Financial Crisis just shifted us towards another bubble economy?
National Business Review
Housing policies in short supply
Forget about land value taxes. New Zealand needs an overhaul of both the planning system and the financing of local infrastructure.
Insights
New Zealand is not Panama
It surprising just how quickly commentators jumped from the Panama Papers to assumptions about New Zealand’s offshore trusts regime.
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Delivering a future of work
There is no doubt there will be jobs in the future. But they will be different from our jobs today.
Someone still needs to design, service and repair those robots and drones that bring our pizzas.
National Business Review
The great British sugar scam
Britain’s sugar tax is pure political circus. It is a sweet distraction from the more pressing, serious and important issues of government. And it won’t work.