Since the current government took office, I’ve highlighted from time to time (eg here) the tension between the rhetoric about the desire to lift New Zealand’s productivity performance (poor for decades, woeful in the last five years or so) and to increase the outward orientation of the economy, and the specific policy promises which mostly seem likely to work in exactly the opposite direction.
The determination to reduce carbon emissions even more aggressively than the previous government’s goal, especially while sticking with a largely unchanged immigration policy that continued to drive up the population, seemed a prime example. I didn’t have any numbers, but the direction of the effect seemed pretty clear.
But now the government has published some numbers, which really should be get a lot of attention. Yesterday the Green Party leader James Shaw (Minister of Climate Change) launched a consultative document on what form the “net…
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