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Ryan Bridge: Our country deserves more than an economic recovery
The RBNZ update this week again made the point that yes, the economy's in bounce back mode.
We'll grow 2.5% next year, they reckon.
But this country needs more than that. It deserves more than that.
The problem for us is, and has been for about the past 30 years, productivity. How much we get out for what we put in. We went sideways and it's now falling.
As you know, this is a bad thing. It's taking us more people and resources to make less stuff.
It puts a ceiling on success. It's a wealth killer. Some reckon it's the canary in the coalmine - the thing we should care about most because we're…
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