The Meaning of Globalisation Globalisation – the integration of regional and national economies – has been one of the great forces which have shaped the modern world. New Zealand would be a very different place had there been no globalisation and its forces continue to influence our world. To what extent we can shape our…
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Public ownership is not as important as public control. Listener: 26 January, 2008. Keywords: Business & Finance; Forty years ago Arnold Nordmeyer, then leader of the Labour Opposition, asked a group of students whether they wanted to nationalise corner dairies. His question has haunted me ever since. We don’t want publicly owned…
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Coconuts provide wood, mats, thatch, medicine … and a future. Listener: 19 January, 2008. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Last November, the Body Shop announced it was shipping 300kg of refined organic coconut oil from Samoa to Britain for use in a new product range to be launched in 2008. In some…
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Keywords: Literature and Culture; It is hard to talk of Shirley Smith’s final years, when that extraordinary mind left her long before her body did. Layer after layer of her adult life was stripped away leaving her child-like presence. She still received visitors, ever so politely, and with gratitude, in the way a child might….
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