10 Aug 2021

NZ's post-Covid re-entry plan - what does it mean for business?

From Nine To Noon, 11:06 am on 10 August 2021

Business commentator Pattrick Smellie joins Kathryn to look at the government's impending announcement this week about how New Zealand will open up to the world again.

What decisions will need to be made about the balance between economic disadvantage vs the disadvantage of having a Covid outbreak?

And the Commerce Commission has uncovered a lot of evidence about supermarkets' aggressive use of market power, but less notice has been paid to how restrictions on land use has created local monopoly provision.

Pattrick Smellie is the editor and co-founder of BusinessDesk and has reported on the New Zealand economy and business since 1983.

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