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Climate Policy: No Proper Cost Benefit Analysis

Thursday, 2 July 2009, 4:12 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

“While the new NZIER/Infometrics report to the government on climate change policy provides useful insights, it is not a Regulatory Impact Statement, as required by and defined in the terms of reference of the parliamentary select committee reviewing ... More >>

Naive Keynesianism and Other Fallacies

Thursday, 11 June 2009, 1:59 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

One of the most frequently cited statements in economics is John Maynard Keynes’ observation that “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” More >>

The 2009 Budget: What's Next?

Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 11:44 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable

The National-led government which came into office seven months ago inherited a difficult economic situation. Not only was the international financial system in crisis, triggering a global recession. More importantly, the New Zealand economy had entered a recession ... More >>

Economic Direction Sound, Harder Decisions Needed

Thursday, 28 May 2009, 5:08 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

“The 2009 Budget is a first step on the long road to: - repairing the damage of the economic mismanagement of recent years - raising the economy’s rate of productivity growth and correcting structural imbalances, and - achieving the government’s goal ... More >>

OECD Recipe Falls Short of Necessary Growth Plan

Monday, 27 April 2009, 4:59 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

Ten days ago the latest OECD economic survey of New Zealand was released. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is a forum where governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice ... More >>

Huge Shift in Tax Freedom Day

Monday, 27 April 2009, 9:51 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable

“Tax Freedom Day this year is 11 May, as far as the central government tax burden is concerned”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>

Jennings’ lecture full

Friday, 3 April 2009, 6:35 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

The Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture is to be delivered on Tuesday 7 April by Renaissance Group founder Stephen Jennings at Te Papa Tongarewa to a sell-out crowd of 450. More >>

Royal Commission Report Only a Starting Point

Friday, 27 March 2009, 4:22 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

“The Royal Commission’s report is a starting point for reforming local government in Auckland, but more work needs to be done”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. The Business Roundtable had submitted ... More >>

Climate Change Submission From Business Roundtable

Thursday, 19 March 2009, 3:50 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

The Business Roundtable has released the submission which it presented today to the Emissions Trading Scheme Review Committee of parliament. Executive director Roger Kerr said that the key point made in the discussion with the Committee was that the ... More >>

Job Probation: What Was All the Fuss About?

Friday, 16 January 2009, 12:14 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

The sound and fury from the Labour Party and the unions about the government’s introduction of a 90-day employment probation period for small businesses was extraordinary. More >>

Reality Bites on Climate Change

Friday, 19 December 2008, 11:23 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable

In the past week there have been signs that governments are becoming more sober and realistic on climate change issues. More >>

New Zealand Economy Faces Massive Challenges

Thursday, 18 December 2008, 12:41 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

“Today’s Budget Policy Statement indicates the massive challenges the government is facing as a result of the economic mismanagement of recent years”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>

Coalition Warns Governments Against Emissions Cap

Friday, 12 December 2008, 3:33 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

As the eleven thousand participants in the United Nations Climate Change Conference descend on Poznan, Poland, this week, a coalition of 50 civil society organisations from 38 countries is warning governments against opting for strategies that would ... More >>

Economic Challenges for the New Government

Monday, 1 December 2008, 10:53 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable

The economic story of the last 10 years is easily told. The Labour-led government came into office at the end of 1999 when the economy was recovering strongly from the shallow recession induced by the Asian crises. In the year to March 2000 the ... More >>

Policies Matter Most for Prosperity

Friday, 21 November 2008, 1:01 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable

The Confidence and Supply Agreement between the National and ACT parties released last weekend commits them to pursuing the “concrete goal of closing the income gap with Australia by 2025.” More >>

No U-Turn on Carbon Tax

Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 10:48 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable

The Business Roundtable has welcomed National Party leader John Key’s indication that the new government will be willing to consider the merits of a carbon tax vis-à-vis an emissions trading scheme (ETS) as a response to climate change. More >>

Kerr: The Real Environmental Crisis

Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 9:44 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable

All parties at last weekend’s election had environment policies. The public and political debate is not mainly over environmental goals. It is more over the means of achieving them and over trade-offs, where they exist, with other goals such as ... More >>

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