Open AccessPublic management in difficult economic times
Author(s) -
Bill Ryan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v7i3.4386
Subject(s) - prime minister , parliament , government (linguistics) , public expenditure , public administration , statement (logic) , political science , public finance , administration (probate law) , economics , politics , law , philosophy , linguistics
Three recent speeches – by the Finance Minister to the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (English, 2010) and to the Institute of Public Administration New Zealand (English, 2011), and the statement to Parliament delivered by the prime minister in February (Key, 2011) – draw an explicit link between government expenditure and New Zealand’s economic performance in weathering the global economic difficulties and the effects of the Christchurch earthquakes. Government expenditure is said to be too high and, given present trends, unsustainable. Strategies for making savings have been outlined.