Public management in difficult economic times

Authors

  • Bill Ryan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v7i3.4386

Keywords:

government expenditure, public sector performance, impacts of the Christchurch earthquakes, core functions of government, 2011 Fiscal Strategy Report, Performance Improvement Framework (PIF), public sector mergers, cutback management, balance between fiscal and governance goals

Abstract

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.  

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Policy Quarterly volume 7 number 3 2011

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2011-08-01

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Vol. 7 No. 3 (2011): Policy Quarterly

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