NZ’s barriers to economic growth: short-term thinking, political concentration and policy flip-flops
- Written by Kate Nicholls, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology

Economic growth took centre stage during Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s recent State of the Nation speech.
Yet in amongst the discussion and criticism of the government’s plans, many have got locked into a one-dimensional debate centred on reducing regulation to encourage economic growth.
This ignores a...