PHOTO: SUPPLIED Fiscal policies are needed to stimulate the economy, says Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr.
New Zealanders should each be given a payment of $1500 to stimulate the economy, Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr says.
“Everything we have talked about to date is about keeping businesses up and running,” Kerr said. “Assisting individuals who have been directly impacted… that’s what we should have been doing. But there comes a time when we move to level two and then to level one and at that point we need to move from saving the economy to stimulating it.”
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He said New Zealand would re-enter a new world after the lockdown. One way to put a “Firestarter” under the economy was to direct more money back into New Zealanders’ hands.
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