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Compulsory enrolment in Kiwisaver
I’m puzzled. Fresh from removing the sign-on bonus for new KiwiSaver members, Bill English is now talking about compulsorily enrolling everyone (well, all employees I assume) in KIwiSaver. This was...
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National savings
The annual national accounts data were released a few weeks ago by Statistics New Zealand. They got little media attention, which isn’t surprising, but I like fossicking in the spreadsheets. Apart from...
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The IMF Report: saving and vulnerability
The IMF released its latest Article IV report on New Zealand yesterday. There are also some background research papers released with the report, and I might come back to look at them later. There...
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Not bucking the longer-term trends
I was belatedly reading the speech given earlier this month by the Governor of the Reserve Bank. His speeches often have had a strong tinge of cheerleading for the government – either highlighting...
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New Zealand savings rate trends
Making sense of savings behaviour (the bit of flow income not spent) in New Zealand is a bit of a challenge. Perhaps that is true of other countries as well, but I know their individual stories less...
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Savings rates in international context
In putting together yesterday’s post, I stumbled on something I hadn’t noticed previously. In yesterday’s post I showed only New Zealand saving rates – in particular, net national savings (ie savings...
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Savings and investment
Pottering in the IMF WEO database yesterday, I found myself looking at savings and investment trends. Here is chart for advanced countries as a group, with the data expressed as a percentage of GDP....
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Spending and saving
Another post, probably the last, looking at some of the recently-released national accounts data. First, a useful reminder of how much, relatively speaking, New Zealand benefited from the fall in...
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Savings rate across the OECD
In my post yesterday I looked at various New Zealand saving and spending series across time, drawing from the recently-released annual national accounts data. In this post I’m looking just at national...
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Saving: New Zealand and Australia compared
In a post earlier this week looking at national saving rates across the OECD, I included this chart For the last few years, national saving rates in New Zealand have been higher than those in...
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