Free Market Reform in New Zealand: An Australian Perspective
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The defeat of the Shipley National government in 1999 marked the end of a fifteen-year experiment in which New Zealand governments undertook some of the most radical free-market reforms ever attempted in a developed economy. Although some reforms produced the desired outcome, it is now clear that the reforms as a whole did not produce the results hoped for by their advocates. New Zealand's economic performance is particularly disappointing when compared to that of Australia, which faced broadly similar economic problems in the early 1980s and undertook similar, but signficantly less radical, reforms.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000