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Insights

Apologise, then make it right

The government is effectively forcing skilled migrants to leave the country, while trying to find space in MIQ for other foreign workers to replace them. It is madness in a time of skill shortages and MIQ shortages. […]

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Foreign investment: Learning from the best

Hong Kong and New Zealand are obviously very different economies with different political and social cultures. But if we want to make the New Zealand economy more attractive to job creating international investment, we might just try to learn a thing or two from the world’s best players in this business. […]

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Clean, ethical and poor

When people meet under Chatham House rules, you cannot disclose afterwards who said what. That’s the drawback. The advantage is that you find out what people really believe when they do not
have to hold back. And that can be most telling. […]

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The wrong kind of economic stimulus

The Canterbury earthquakes certainly demonstrated how resilient New Zealanders are in the face of adversity, but there is no doubt we would have been better off without them. Don’t let bad economics suggest otherwise. […]