Economists are giving New Zealand's Covid19 response high praise
Economists are giving New Zealand's Covid19 response high praise
17 December 2020
Statistics New Zealand has just released the latest GDP figures, showing a 14 percent rise for the past quarter, cancelling out the June quarter's 11 percent drop.
Annually, however, there's been a 2.2 per cent decline, the largest fall on record.
ASB Chief Economist Nick Tuffley says our response to the pandemic sets us apart from the rest of the world.
He says we've been able to freely go about our daily lives both from a business commerce point of view but also socially.
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