Budget 2020: Chance to 'build back better' as virus 'resets the clock'

Budget 2020: Chance to 'build back better' as virus 'resets the clock'
Pattrick Smellie
Next Thursday's election-year Budget will be the first outing for the government's vision not only to recover from the massive economic shock of the response to covid-19, but to "build back better."In an interview ahead of a pre-Budget speech today, Finance Minister Grant Robertson nominated large-scale home-building, investment to hasten a low-carbon economy, encouragement of small-scale entrepreneurialism and reducing inequality as opportunities created by the disruption to previous norms caused by the global pandemic.R...

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