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The pandemic budget: moving New Zealand from critical care to long-term recovery

  • Written by Norman Gemmell, Chair in Public Finance, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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May 14’s budget will surely be remembered as the “pandemic budget”. It might seem like the worst possible timing – economic uncertainty rages, Treasury has had to abandon its usual economic “forecasts”, and the pandemic’s viral economic spread is far from over.

On the contrary, this may...

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