The Government has also introduced measures to sustain economic growth, such as a tax allowance for corporate equity, the deductibility of the portion of IRAP relating to labour costs, provisions to foster competition and measures for infrastructure investment. Action must proceed with wide-ranging measures that gradually bring the economy up to a higher and better balanced growth path.
Graeme Wheeler: Improving New Zealand’s economic growth Speech by Mr Graeme Wheeler, Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce, Christchurch, 1 February 2013. *  *  *  I’m conscious of George Bernard Shaw’s comment that “if all the economists were laid end to end, they would never reach a conclusion”.