Almost all commentators are saying the New Zealand's economy needs to be reconfigured and diversified to generate a more productive export sector, but little has happened by way of intentional steps or even a plan to make that happen. Planning, and even the discussion of its absence, is distinctly unfashionable.
The Fabians aim to fill the gap by inviting speakers to give their views on what such steps might be. We have now scheduled first two instalments of . In the second of our new free seminar series, The Plan for the Productive Economy on April 21st, Bernard Hickey of Interest.co.nz, a trenchant critic of the status-quo, will propose his own solutions to the problems NZ faces. Rick Boven of the New Zealand Institute will expand on the Institute's ideas the paper 'A goal is not a strategy' in Wellington on Tuesday May 17.You can register for the Hickey seminar here and the Boven seminar here.