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Speeches and presentations
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Asia: Welcome to Our Region
4 October 2010, Rowan Callick, Pacific Rim Policy Exchange, Sydney
I just received a press release from a UN agency headlined: Addressing inequality key to progress on global anti-poverty targets. This is a project to end poverty that appears to operate in a parallel universe, for those of us who are living here in the Asia-Pacific region which contains more than half the world’s population.
For you are meeting in the wake of the recent North American-European financial crisis – NOT a GLOBAL financial crisis – and just as this region is taking over, in my view unshakeably, the leadership of economic growth, if not of the global economy itself.
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International Trade and New Zealand's Place In It
9 September 2004, Roger Kerr
Speech by Roger Kerr to Victoria University of Wellington Law Students
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Economics and Politics of Transition
12 January 2004, Roger Kerr
Speech by Roger Kerr to Mont Pelerin Society Special Regional Meeting, Sri Lanka
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What America Means for New Zealand
12 September 2003, Roger Kerr
In 1997, two years after he visited New Zealand as a guest of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, the British historian Paul Johnson published his acclaimed book A History of the American People.
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Business, Trade And The Environment
12 February 2002, Roger Kerr
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New Zealand and the Outside World
10 December 2001, Roger Kerr
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The New Zealand-Australia Relationship: A Business Perspective
30 June 2001, Roger Kerr
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Free Trade or Fair Trade: What's Best For New Zealand?
8 August 2000, Roger Kerr
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Globalisation, Asia, and Implications for New Zealand
9 December 1998, Roger Kerr
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Globalisation: Facts and Fallacies
22 August 1997, Bob Matthew
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Australia and New Zealand - A New Economic Partnership?
9 October 1996, Douglas Myers
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Economic Reform: New Zealand in an International Perspective
28 November 1995, David Henderson
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The Future for Trans Tasman Commercial Relations
15 October 1993, Douglas Myers
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Globalisation and Immigration: Long-Term Perspectives for New Zealand
28 May 1993, Wolfgang Kasper
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Rejoining the World: Economic Reform in Australasia
25 November 1992, Douglas Myers
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Competing on the World Market
1 November 1991, David Richwhite
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Confronting Economic Realities: The New CER Agenda
11 April 1991, Douglas Myers
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A Common External Tariff, External Trade and Industrial Development Policies
14 November 1990, Lindsay Fergusson
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Does Tariff Protection Cost Jobs?
25 June 1990, Alan Gibbs
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Books and reports
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Economic Freedom of the World 2010
20 September 2010, the Fraser Institute
The Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of
countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete, and security of privately owned property.
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Local Government Forum: Port performance and Ownership
18 August 2010, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research
The OECD and the 2025 Taskforce, together with some private commentators, have recently highlighted the high level of local authority ownership among New Zealand ports and suggested that this is a barrier to port rationalisation and may be leading to inefficient investment in ports for parochial reasons.
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The Future of Culture in a Globalised World: The 2005 Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture
15 December 2005, Tyler Cowen
I sometimes describe my cultural and economic point of view as
being that of a cultural optimist; that is, I expect the future in
a commercial economy to bring us more choices and more diverse choices.
If we put aside the concerns of the current day and look back at world history, it has been the globalising eras that have brought us cultural diversity. If we look at the nineteenth century, which, for Europe, was a time of free trade when countries and regions were drawn closer by using railroads and faster ships, we see a time of remarkable cultural inventiveness. The biggest deglobalisation the West has suffered was the fall of the Roman Empire. Following that fall, there was indeed a dark age for culture; literature declined and many wonderful statues of antiquity were melted down for their bronze content.
This longer-term perspective is often forgotten when we consider the present day. We find cultural pessimists - both on the left and right wings - concerned that we are headed toward a so-called least common denominator, one-world culture. The vision is that everyone eats at McDonald's, we all wear Reeboks, we are all stuck in a Starbucks somewhere, we all watch banal television shows, and have little else to experience. Even in our modern world this is obviously not true.
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The Multilateral Agreement: A Story and Its Lessons
1 May 1999, David Henderson
There is no summary available for this publication.
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1 February 1999, David Henderson
Over the past two decades, economic policies across the world, and economic systems with them, have changed their character, their complexion. To an extent that few anticipated before the event, a large and growing array of governments have adopted measures, and in some cases whole programmes, with the intention and the effect of making
their economies freer, more open and less regulated: both individually and in concert, they have taken the path of economic reform.
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New Zealand's External Economic Policies: Current Issues in an International and Trans-Tasman Perspective
1 June 1997, David Henderson
There is no summary available for this publication.
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Submissions
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Pan-Industry Letter to Prime Minister on the Emissions Trading Scheme
5 March 2010,
Recent events show that the international climate change context is less certain than
previously anticipated. We think that the current emissions trading scheme is too rigid
and may in fact frustrate the delivery of the outcomes sought from it. Therefore, we
seek an assurance from you that in light of recent events the Government is taking
stock of whether the current climate change policy settings which focus primarily on
an emissions trading scheme remain appropriate for New Zealand.
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New Zealand China Free Trade Agreement
8 May 2008, New Zealand Business Roundtable
We see the agreement as furthering New Zealand's efforts to become an open and competitive economy with strong links to the rest of the world. Trade liberalisation policies going back some 25 years have put the country in a sound position to benefit from freer trade with China.
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Submission On The Post-2005 Tariff Review
2 April 2002, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Inquiry into New Zealand's Economic and Trade Relationship with Australia
1 November 2000, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Inquiry into New Zealand's Economic and Trade Relationship with Australia
1 June 2000, New Zealand Business Roundtable
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Articles
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Should We Restrict Foreign Investment in Land?
8 October 2010, Roger Kerr, Otago Daily Times
Every few years New Zealand has a debate about land sales to foreigners. The last time was 2003: the Sunday-Star Times carried articles headlined ‘New Zealand for sale’, and ‘Land ownership strikes a nerve’. The government of the day introduced tighter rules for sales of ‘iconic’ land.
Currently a Save the Farms lobby group is calling for a fresh public debate. This is not unhealthy: foreign ownership, including in land, is an important topic. How should we think about the issues?
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Correcting New Zealand's External Imbalance
19 June 2009, Roger Kerr
In his early budgets, former finance minister Michael Cullen worried a lot about the deficit in the current account of the balance of payments. In the five years before he came into office the annual deficit averaged justover 5% of GDP. He left office with deficits at record 8-9% levels.
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It's Getting Better All the Time
9 March 2007, Roger Kerr
This article was published in the Otago Daily Times today.
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Multinational Companies Don't Rule the World
17 December 2004, Roger Kerr
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Australia Endorses Reform
20 October 2004, Roger Kerr
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The Record of Progress
10 September 2004, Roger Kerr
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The Role of Business in Historical Perspective and Today
30 July 2004, Roger Kerr
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Hard-headed spending decisions not cold-hearted
2 July 2004, Roger Kerr
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Australia-US trade deal spells danger for New Zealand
13 February 2004, Roger Kerr
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Asian Giants on the Rise
9 February 2004, Roger Kerr
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Prejudice Against a Word
16 January 2004, Roger Kerr
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OECD Gives New Zealand a D Grade
22 December 2003, Roger Kerr
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was, in its own words, set up "to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in member countries", while contributing to world trade and development generally.
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Clock ticking on objectives
26 November 2003, Roger Kerr
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Why is Australia doing so well?
24 August 2003, Roger Kerr
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Globalisation is good for the poor
15 July 2003, Roger Kerr
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Economic freedom gains ground - but not in New Zealand
14 July 2003, Roger Kerr
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New Zealand's slow slide to mediocrity
9 July 2003, Norman LaRocque
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Protectionism: Time to quit the habit
14 April 2003, Roger Kerr
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Labour's economic drive loses momentum
13 March 2003, Roger Kerr
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Getting back on the Australian radar screen
7 March 2003, Roger Kerr
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Perspectives
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Issue 476 A Beacon For US Trade Policy
27 July 2011, Daniel J. Ikenson
Sixteenth-century mercantilist dogma may still dominate trade policymaking in Washington, but in Canberra the government has set a 21st-century course by espousing and embracing the real benefits of trade.
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Issue 471 The “Fair” Trade Delusion
13 July 2011, Richard A. Epstein
In the sprawling field of international relations, few debates are as persistent and acrimonious as the one between the advocates of "free trade" and "fair trade."
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Issue 419 We Have to Sell the Farm
23 December 2010, Andrew Leigh
An iron law of populism is that while Australian businesspeople investing abroad are portrayed as job-creating entrepreneurs, foreign investors are depicted as rapacious robber-barons.
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Issue 403 The Enemy Is Not Cheap Goods
11 October 2010, Jeff Jacoby
THE POLICIES of the Chinese government make it possible for Americans to acquire a vast array of products at affordable prices. For that high crime and misdemeanor, the US House of Representatives voted last week to punish China.
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Issue 385 “Socially Responsible” Corporations: Whose Wealth are they spreading around?
23 July 2010, James M Roberts
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) departments are much in vogue among Fortune 500 companies, but what do they really do? In Africa, Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere around the world, large corporations frequently boast about the social welfare CSR projects they fund as a way for them to "give back."
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Issue 382 The Gulf Spill, the Financial Crisis and Government Failure
13 July 2010, Gerald P O'Driscoll
The Gulf oil spill and the global financial crisis both demonstrate the failings of big government. Partisan politics obscures the linkage, with the consequence that each political party repeats the mistakes of the other as its turn to govern arrives.
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Issue 372 Capitalism is Ruining the Planet, and Pigs Might Fly
2 June 2010, Chris Berg
The home insulation program has been scrapped. And the emissions trading scheme has been abandoned.
But try not to worry too much. We are all a lot more environmentally sustainable than you imagine. Just look what happens when a little piggy goes to the market.
In 2008, a Dutch conceptual artist, Christien Meindertsma, chose a single pig and followed what happened to every part of it as it was slaughtered, sold, distributed and processed around the world.
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Issue 364 PIGS and Euros
3 May 2010, Alvaro Vargas Llosa
WASHINGTON—Experts watching the economic drama of the PIGS—Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain—keep telling us, reasonably, that you cannot have a Southern European economy and a German exchange rate. They mean that the euro, dominated by mighty and disciplined Germany, has become a straitjacket for deficit-ridden, debt-laden, unproductive economies that cannot devalue their way out of the crisis because they have ceded control over monetary policy to the European Central Bank.
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Issue 354 The Patsy Revolt of 2010
25 March 2010, Bill Bonner
Insurrection is in the air. In England, government employees are preparing the biggest strike since the ’80s. In America, dissatisfaction with Congress is at record highs; four out of five of those polled say, “Nothing can be accomplished in Washington.”
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Issue 342 The Best is Yet to Come
4 February 2010, Adrian Wooldridge
Two years ago, as the world flirted with a second Great Depression, Gregg Easterbrook was in the midst of writing a book about the coming economic boom. A less confident writer might have abandoned the project in despair. But Mr. Easterbrook, a graduate of the New Republic's school of contrarian journalism, forged on regardless. The result is a book that is both a pleasure to read and a valuable corrective to the gloom that currently envelops us.
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Issue 340 Copenhagen and the Demise of the Green Utopia
28 January 2010, Dr Benny Peiser
The failure of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen is a historical watershed that marks the beginning of the end of climate hysteria. Not only does it epitomise the failure of the EU’s environmental policy, it also symbolises the loss of Western dominance. The failure of the climate summit was not only predictable – it was inevitable. There was no way out from the cul-de-sac into which the international community has manoeuvred itself.
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Issue 338 The U.S Isn’t as Free as It Used to Be
22 January 2010, Terry Miller
The United States is losing ground to its major competitors in the global marketplace, according to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom released today by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. This year, of the world's 20 largest economies, the U.S. suffered the largest drop in overall economic freedom. Its score declined to 78 from 80.7 on the 0 to 100 Index scale.
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Issue 320 Palm Oil - Let's Inject Some Common Sense
20 November 2009, Katherine Rich
Reading headlines such as “Deadly Palm Oil In Your Trolley”, one could easily get the false impression that any New Zealand firm using palm oil is personally responsible for the demise of the orangutan and world’s rainforests. The use of palm oil has been treated like an industry “dirty secret” - somewhere on the environmental nasties continuum between baby seal clubbing and ocelot farming.
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Issue 290 Creeping protectionism ushering in new era of de-globalisation? We hope not
14 August 2009, Alec Gelder
The current period of market stability--and even growth, at least in many global equity indices--might be driven by the government-led response to the financial crisis. But the long-term impact of these policies--especially the "buy local" schemes and the many other newly imposed tariff and non-tariff barriers that will restrict trade--could spell disaster for the global economy and usher in a new and far less prosperous era of
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Issue 112, Trade deficit's poor image
20 July 2007, Alex Robson
On Wednesday the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its monthly figures for Australia's merchandise trade in goods and services with the rest of the world for the month of May. The data reveals that in seasonally adjusted terms the value of Australia's exports was $18.7 billion and the value of our imports was $19.5 billion, giving a deficit of just over $800 million.
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Media Releases
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Economic Freedom Fell Globally and in New Zealand in 2008
20 September 2010, New Zealand Business Roundtable
New Zealand lost ground in 2008 in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2010 Annual Report, released today in New Zealand by the New Zealand Business Roundtable. The report takes the annual series up to 2008, the most recent year for which data are available.
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Local Government Forum: New Report on Ports Industry Released
18 August 2010, Local Government Forum
The Local Government Forum released today a report on the performance
of New Zealand ports, which are a vital link in the transport chain between
New Zealand and the rest of the world.
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Multilateral Trade Reform: the Way Forward
25 July 2006, Tasman Transparency Group
The apparent failure of the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations demonstrates the imperative of first addressing economic reform at home.
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Policy backgrounders
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No.6, Can we learn from Ireland's experience? An Irishman's Perspective
7 June 2005, Colin Lynch
Ireland's economic transformation has been breathtaking.
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E-Connects
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Europe: What Future?
28 July 2010, Dr Robin Harris
The pretense that the European Union is successful and stable—and that the euro is a successful and stable currency—has been exploded by events surrounding the financial bailout of Greece. No one knows where the contagion will spread or how it may end. The world’s financial markets have occasionally teetered on the edge of panic.
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"Mostly Free" - The Startling Decline of America's Economic Freedom and What to Do About It
26 July 2010, Terry Miller and Kim R Holmes
In 2010, for the first time ever, the United States has fallen from the ranks of the economically “free” as
measured by the Index of Economic Freedom, published annually by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall
Street Journal.
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Milton Friedman on Steel Tariffs and Trade in 1978
1 February 2010, Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman gives a concise and lucid argument for free trade at Utah State University in 1978.
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Green Poverty - The Greenpeace Strategy on Forestry and Climate Change
11 December 2009, Green Poverty
Greenpeace has been active in the global climate change negotiations.
Its public message is “Stop Deforestation — save
the Climate.” But this is not the Greenpeace forestry strategy.
It is, as it was long before climate change became a global
issue, to “halt commercial forestry” everywhere.
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Feeble Critiques: Capitalism's Petty Detractors
10 November 2009, Jagdish Bhagwati
When the twin crises erupted on Wall Street and Main Street, each one of them fierce in itself but far more frightening when they interacted, populists rushed forward to celebrate the demise of capitalism and, for added gratification, plunge their pitchforks into its dead corpse. Since then, they have had their champagne parties. By now, however, the fizz is gone and the rush to judgment by capitalism’s obituarists has left us with tattered myths and egregious fallacies that invite scrutiny and refutation.
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