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August 1, 2022
Analysis By Geoffrey Miller Today’s speech by Jacinda Ardern to the China Business Summit in Auckland was full of soothing words for Beijing. The headline-grabber was Ardern’s comment that ‘a few plans are afoot’ for New Zealand ministers to return to China – and that the Prime Minister herself hopes to return to the country ... <a title="Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern strikes a softer tone on China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/01/political-roundup-jacinda-ardern-strikes-a-softer-tone-on-china/" aria-label="Read more about Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern strikes a softer tone on China">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. All wars incur economic costs, and not only to the directly belligerent countries. The biggest costs arise when a war becomes a prolonged stalemate. The present war in Ukraine can be characterised, differently, as a Russian Civil War (that’s the Russian view), as ‘just another’ Eastern European conflict that will go ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – The Economic Cost of War, especially World War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/22/keith-rankin-essay-the-economic-cost-of-war-especially-world-war/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – The Economic Cost of War, especially World War">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Achieving the SDGs in extraordinary times OP-ED by Armida Alisjahbana, Woochong Um and Kanni Wignaraja The start of the “Decade of Action” to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also marked the start of an unprecedented period of overlapping crises. The Covid-19 pandemic and crises of conflict, hunger, climate change and environmental ... <a title="OP-ED: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in extraordinary times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/op-ed-achieving-the-sustainable-development-goals-in-extraordinary-times/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in extraordinary times">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. Problems make the world go round. Many of us – maybe the majority of workers, and certainly the majority of well-paid workers – earn our living addressing problems. A problem-free world would represent a major crisis for modern social-capitalism. (Yet standard economic theory continues to present the productive economy as a ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Narrow Vision: Subsidised Cars and Street Immunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/keith-rankin-essay-narrow-vision-subsidised-cars-and-street-immunity/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Narrow Vision: Subsidised Cars and Street Immunity">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific region is at a crossroads today – to further breakdown or breakthrough to a greener, better, safer future. Since the Economic and Social Commission for Asia ... <a title="OP-ED: Reclaiming our future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/op-ed-reclaiming-our-future/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Reclaiming our future">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Finance Minister Grant Robertson has delivered a Budget that will many asking “Is that all there is?” There is a myriad of initiatives and there is increased spending, but strangely it doesn’t really add up to much at all for those hoping for a more traditional Labour-style Budget. The headline ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A Conservative Budget for volatile times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/19/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-a-conservative-budget-for-volatile-times/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A Conservative Budget for volatile times">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Modern ‘western’ governments are known as ‘liberal democracies’. While each political party in a liberal democracy has a ‘policy agenda’ which it would like to implement, only single-party governments have a realistic opportunity to fully implement their agenda; and they typically need multiple terms of single party (or near single party) ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Liberal Democracy in the new neonationalist era: The Three ‘O’s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/13/keith-rankin-essay-liberal-democracy-in-the-new-neonationalist-era-the-three-os/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Liberal Democracy in the new neonationalist era: The Three ‘O’s">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The new (though not unfamiliar to older New Zealanders) crisis of 2022 (and most likely beyond) has become, alternatively, a ‘cost of living’ or an ‘inflation’ crisis. The public discussion treats these two ‘enemies of the people’ as one and the same thing. But they are not. Indeed such conflation is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Problem of Price Increases: ‘Cost of Living’ versus ‘Inflation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/21/keith-rankin-essay-problem-of-price-increases-cost-of-living-versus-inflation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Problem of Price Increases: ‘Cost of Living’ versus ‘Inflation’">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. On 1 December 2021 the CCCFA (Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act) entered Aotearoa New Zealand with more stealth than the Omicron BA2 variant. It resulted in unintended consequences that were (and are) entirely predictable. There are two sets of ‘unintended but predictable consequences’: those consequences that make anxious and desperate ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Borrowing Hurdles: Unintended Consequences arising from Wilful Blindness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/23/keith-rankin-analysis-borrowing-hurdles-unintended-consequences-arising-from-wilful-blindness/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Borrowing Hurdles: Unintended Consequences arising from Wilful Blindness">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2022
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana – United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary ESCAP. 2022 marks the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while an end to the pandemic is in sight, it is far from over and the consequences will be felt for decades to come. At the same time, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ... <a title="OP-ED: Pandemic pushes SDGs further out of reach of Asia and the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/17/op-ed-pandemic-pushes-sdgs-further-out-of-reach-of-asia-and-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Pandemic pushes SDGs further out of reach of Asia and the Pacific">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The big new story in the news cycle – in New Zealand but not only in New Zealand – is the rising ‘cost of living’, which is usually conflated with ‘inflation’. These topics – together and separately – are, like Covid19, devolved to ‘social science’ (macroeconomist in this case) ‘experts’; within ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Rising ‘Cost of Living’ and Inflation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/16/keith-rankin-essay-rising-cost-of-living-and-inflation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Rising ‘Cost of Living’ and Inflation">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2022
Opinion by Chris Leitch, leader of Social Credit Party. The Reserve Bank holds $55 billion in Government bonds (around half of the Government’s current borrowing) – It bought those bonds (IOU’s which represent previous government borrowing) from the country’s commercial banks, institutional investors, and managed funds (such as Kiwisaver) using a process termed Quantitative Easing ... <a title="Opinion – The Reserve Bank holds $55 billion in Government bonds (around half of the Government’s current borrowing)." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/08/opinion-the-reserve-bank-holds-55-billion-in-government-bonds-around-half-of-the-governments-current-borrowing/" aria-label="Read more about Opinion – The Reserve Bank holds $55 billion in Government bonds (around half of the Government’s current borrowing).">Read more</a>
