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Poverty and Benefit Dependency

David Green explains why poverty studies based on expenditure or consumption are superior to those based on income. He argues that a more fundamental objection to many studies of poverty is that they divert attention from the more serious problems of welfare dependency and diminished personal responsibility. Read more

David Green
New Zealand Business Roundtable
1 July, 2001
Submission New Zealand Superannuation Bill

Submission: New Zealand Superannuation Bill

The pre-funding proposal is largely an accounting exercise with no direct economic impact on the retirement income problem. As now spelled out, it is essentially a tax-smoothing scheme. Read more

New Zealand Business Roundtable
1 February, 2001
Submission 2000 Review of the Minimum Wage1

Submission: 2000 Review of the Minimum Wage

The Minimum Wage Act 1983 (the Act) states that the governor-general may prescribe by order in council minimum rates of wages payable to any class or classes of workers. The class or classes of workers are to be defined by reference to their ages. Read more

New Zealand Business Roundtable
1 October, 2000
Submission Employment Relations Bill

Submission: Employment Relations Bill

The Employment Relations Bill raises two major concerns about government policy, one substantive and the other procedural. The substantive concern is the impact that the Bill will have on other areas of government policy including on price stability, unemployment, investment, the balance of payments, economic growth and the government's accounts. Read more

New Zealand Business Roundtable
1 May, 2000
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Equity as a Social Goal

How can we decide what the goals of public policy ought to be? Should equality or some other form of equity be a social goal? Read more

Cathy Buchanan and Peter Hartley
New Zealand Business Roundtable
1 March, 2000
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Restoring Sanctity of Contract in Employment Relationships

I can think of two possible approaches to the general question of how to restore the sanctity of property and contract - a systematic exposition from first principles or a more autobiographical account. On this occasion, I will begin with some personal reflections. Read more

New Zealand Business Roundtable
1 November, 1999
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The Treaty of Waitangi: A Plain Meaning Interpretation

It was only with some trepidation that I accepted your invitation to speak about the Treaty of Waitangi and the rights of indigenous people, a most controversial subject in New Zealand. At one level, the debates here replicate those that are occurring elsewhere in the world. Read more

New Zealand Business Roundtable
1 August, 1999

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