Almost all political parties are committed to the retention of the current transparent and independent monetary policy framework, established without dissentient vote in Parliament in 1989. Almost all political parties recognise the importance of continuing to run fiscal surpluses at this stage of the demographic cycle, and the high level of fiscal transparency is simply not a political issue at all.
Almost all political parties are committed to an internationally open and competitive economy. BIS Review 8/1998  -6-  And as far as creditworthiness is concerned, one of the major ‘borrowers’ - to the extent that foreign investors have bought New Zealand dollar government securities on the New Zealand market - is the government itself.