NZ should be in the vanguard of green industry, says Dave Feickert.
The critical issue for the future of New Zealand’s economic performance is the survival of its clean and green brand.
Sound macro-economic policy is needed to set the framework, as Bryan Gould argued yesterday, and lifting productivity, improving human capital and boosting innovation, as Bill English argued, are also essential. But we cannot survive as a first-world country unless we renew our brand.
New Zealanders have long had a good reputation overseas, working in international institutions, in business, as good workers and as people who can get on with almost …
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