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Climate Change: Minefields Ahead
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 10:19 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
At first sight, the government’s response to the challenges of global warming looks responsible and moderate. More >>
Climate Change: Minefields Ahead
Monday, 1 October 2007, 12:12 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
At first sight, the government’s response to the challenges of global warming looks responsible and moderate. More >>
Back to Basics on Election Funding
Friday, 21 September 2007, 10:07 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Seldom has a bill received such vehement and widespread criticism as the Electoral Finance Bill currently before parliament. Opposition to its main provisions has come from lawyers, the Human Rights Commission, business organisations, unions and many ... More >>
Back to Basics on Election Funding
Friday, 21 September 2007, 9:43 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Seldom has a bill received such vehement and widespread criticism as the Electoral Finance Bill currently before parliament. More >>
NZBR Submission On Regulatory Responsibility Bill
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 5:24 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
A copy of the Business Roundtable's submission on the Regulatory Responsibility Bill. More >>
Roger Kerr - Public Policy Riddles
Friday, 7 September 2007, 2:01 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Two Bedouins are riding their camels through the desert. One of them starts complaining about how slow their camel is. The other responds that theirs is slower. They finally bet on the issue. The oasis is three miles off and they agree that the person whose ... More >>
Auckland Airport Not a Political Plaything
Friday, 24 August 2007, 12:29 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Some of the reactions to the offer by Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) to take a shareholding of 51% – 60% in Auckland International Airport Limited (AIAL) have been emotive rather than rational. More >>
Catching Up W Australia: Policies Must Match Goals
Monday, 13 August 2007, 10:17 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The government came into office committed to raising New Zealand’s rate of economic growth. It said that lifting the average incomes of New Zealanders into the top half of the OECD range was its “top priority” goal. More >>
Monetary Policy Framework at Risk
Friday, 27 July 2007, 10:29 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Monetary policy is a hot topic right now. The Reserve Bank’s decision yesterday to raise the Official Cash Rate to 8.25% will ensure that it remains on the boil. More >>
Now for some sensible talk about climate change
Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 2:40 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
PHEW, Live Earth is over. The seven concerts on seven continents featuring a bunch of jet fuel-addicted rock stars summed up the problem with much of the talk about change. Hypocrisy aside, the climate change rockers and other zealots would have ... More >>
Monetary Policy Credibility Must be Restored
Friday, 20 July 2007, 10:31 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The toxic combination of confusion around monetary policy, the impact of government spending on interest rates and the exchange rate, and the slump in productivity growth are putting New Zealand’s economic outlook seriously at risk”, Roger Kerr, executive ... More >>
Labour Productivity Growth Grinds to a Halt
Monday, 16 July 2007, 11:13 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The deterioration in New Zealand’s productivity growth performance in recent years looks likely to have continued in the year ended March 2007”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>
Welfare: More a Band-Aid than a Solution
Friday, 29 June 2007, 4:40 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
_When Sir Bob Geldof berated the New Zealand government a year ago for its ‘pathetic’ contribution to alleviating world poverty, he overlooked the fairly generous amount of government assistance to New Zealand’s own poor. Our governments have a long ... More >>
Roger Kerr: Not so Fast, Minister
Friday, 15 June 2007, 10:34 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Unveiling plans for an emissions trading scheme last month, climate change minister David Parker declared it would be up and running next year, would apply to all sectors of the economy, and would have a "negligible" impact on economic growth. And while ... More >>
Will KiwiSaver Boost Economic Growth?
Friday, 1 June 2007, 11:50 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
There is much controversy about whether KiwiSaver is a ‘solution’ to a non-existent problem of poor savings in New Zealand, and about whether it makes sense as a retirement income policy. More >>
How to Future-Proof New Zealand
Thursday, 17 May 2007, 4:57 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
This article appeared in the Dominion Post today, 17 May 2007. By Roger Kerr How to Future-Proof New Zealand More >>
NZBR: How to Future-Proof New Zealand
Thursday, 17 May 2007, 4:54 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
A goal of finance minister Michael Cullen has been to 'future-proof' New Zealand: to protect it against the economic consequences of the bulge of aging baby boomers and to protect the welfare state against budgetary stress. More >>
Focus on Productivity and Growth Missing in Budget
Thursday, 17 May 2007, 3:36 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The positive moves in the budget, especially on company tax, are overshadowed by the absence of a strategic direction and of effective policies to lift the economy’s sagging growth rate”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business ... More >>
Report Delivers Another Clear Message to Govt
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 5:17 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"Like last month's OECD report, the latest report from the International Monetary Fund sends another strong message to the government that its current policy settings are ill-founded and will not achieve the growth the government is hoping for", Roger ... More >>
Across the Tasman: Australia Rising
Friday, 4 May 2007, 11:12 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
In a speech last week to the Queensland Media Club, Australian prime minister John Howard described the sort of world Australians would be living in a decade from now, and his vision of “an Australia rising to new heights” to meet its challenges. More >>
