What has PM Hipkins done? The newly released IMF Regional Economic Outlooks say NZ is projected to be the worst performing economy in the entire world in 2024 in terms of GDP growth, with one exception, Equatorial Guinea, which has been ripped apart by conflict. No other time in our history has NZ been bottom of the planet.
The details? NZ is projected to be in & out of recession at 0.8% GDP growth in 2024. Growth for 34 Asia-Pacific nations is expected to be way higher, averaging 4.4% (see links below). The IMF Outlook for Western Hemisphere has figures for North & South America. NZ is bottom out of those 36 sovereign nations. (Puerto Rico is the only place worse, but it's a territory). The figures for 45 nations in Western & Eastern Europe again rank NZ bottom, with Italy. The Europe report is titled, "Taming Inflation Without a Recession". What would ours be? "Taming Inflation whilst Engineering a Recession"? Moreover, the African Regional Economic Outlook places NZ worse than all 44 nations there (Equatorial Guinea being the exception). The Middle East & Central Asia Regional Outlook doesn't give individual country figures, though their average growth is projected to be 3.5% in 2024, so looks like we'd be bottom of those countries as well.
Isn't it time our disgraced Finance Minister - who self-declared NZ's "world-beating" Covid health outcomes would go hand-in-hand with world-beating economic outcomes - takes responsibility & resigns? Isn't it time the Reserve Bank Governor resigns for printing $50 billion unnecessarily, causing inflation & then forcing NZ unnecessarily into recession? Will the whole sorry bunch of them keep blaming Putin & flooding for their failures? If it was all down to Putin, why is the entire world projected to outperform us in 2024? Weren't others impacted by Ukraine similarly? Of course they weren't. The impact of that war on NZ was less, since most of our energy is hydro & we import no food from Ukraine.
The PM doesn't add up. The Finance Minister won't add up. The Reserve Bank can't add up. They've gone and bust an amazing country. A lot of work now needs to be done to fix it.
Sources
Asia Pacific Region
North, Central and South America
Sub-Saharan Africa
Europe