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

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...