Previous assessments of New Zealand’s post-1984 economic reform programme have been optimistic about its overall success. This note challenges that optimism by drawing attention to what has happened to real gross domestic product and income distribution since 1984. If New Zealand had continued to grow at the same rate as Australia, it would have produced more than NZ$210 billion in extra output between 1985 and 1998. Over a similar period, the average per capita real income of the bottom four deciles of New Zealand’s income distribution fell by between three and nine per cent
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As we emerge from a deep and long recession, the debate must shift again to how New Zealand can lift...
Key features of NZ business cycles were established for the period 1966q4 to 1990q1 by Kim, Buckle a...
Previous assessments of New Zealand’s post-1984 economic reform programme have been optimistic about...
Beginning in the mid-1980s New Zealand underwent a comprehensive set of economic reforms, which were...
There are no controlled experiments in macroeconomic policy, nor in systematic programs of microecon...
Paper presented to the New Zealand Association of Economists, August 1968.The purpose of this paper ...
New Zealand has gone through remarkable reforms which have encompassed of wide range of government p...
In this chapter, we compare the experience of Australia and New Zealand over the period of microecon...
The paper uses a recently created annual per capita income series for New Zealand, 1870-1993 to cons...
The New Zealand economy has undergone a good deal of micro-economic and macro-economic reform in pur...
This paper addresses aspects of New Zealand's economic performance by first analysing the country's ...
In 1984, New Zealand introduced important policy reforms in order to address major macroeconomic and...
Productivity, measured by output per hour, grew by less than one percent per annum in post reform Ne...
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix reviews the performance of New Zealand and compa...
In 1984 the Labour government in New Zealand began a wide-ranging process of reform with the objecti...
As we emerge from a deep and long recession, the debate must shift again to how New Zealand can lift...
Key features of NZ business cycles were established for the period 1966q4 to 1990q1 by Kim, Buckle a...
Previous assessments of New Zealand’s post-1984 economic reform programme have been optimistic about...
Beginning in the mid-1980s New Zealand underwent a comprehensive set of economic reforms, which were...
There are no controlled experiments in macroeconomic policy, nor in systematic programs of microecon...
Paper presented to the New Zealand Association of Economists, August 1968.The purpose of this paper ...
New Zealand has gone through remarkable reforms which have encompassed of wide range of government p...
In this chapter, we compare the experience of Australia and New Zealand over the period of microecon...
The paper uses a recently created annual per capita income series for New Zealand, 1870-1993 to cons...
The New Zealand economy has undergone a good deal of micro-economic and macro-economic reform in pur...
This paper addresses aspects of New Zealand's economic performance by first analysing the country's ...
In 1984, New Zealand introduced important policy reforms in order to address major macroeconomic and...
Productivity, measured by output per hour, grew by less than one percent per annum in post reform Ne...
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix reviews the performance of New Zealand and compa...
In 1984 the Labour government in New Zealand began a wide-ranging process of reform with the objecti...
As we emerge from a deep and long recession, the debate must shift again to how New Zealand can lift...
Key features of NZ business cycles were established for the period 1966q4 to 1990q1 by Kim, Buckle a...