Arthur GrimesArthur Grimes

Arthur Grimes is a senior fellow, Motu Economic & Public Policy Research and adjunct professor, Victoria University of Wellington. He was chief economist and chair of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

The Wellbeing Budget: taking aim, but without targets

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The commitments in today’s budget are to be welcomed, but they could use some better defined targets to focus ambitions, writes former Reserve Bank chairman Arthur Grimes Wellbeing budgets have been delivered every year since the 1890s when the Liberal government introduced old-age pensions, free primary education and built the first state houses. In 1905, Prime … Read more