Jane KelseyJane Kelsey

Jane Kelsey is a professor of law at the University of Auckland and author of The FIRE Economy: New Zealand’s Reckoning.

Trade deals are a handbrake on New Zealand’s post-Covid recovery

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The ‘spend local’ mantra should apply to our biggest infrastructure projects too. Yet trade and investment agreements curb the government’s freedom to use procurement for a range of economic and social objectives, argues Jane Kelsey. The government has a limited number of ways to kick-start the economy in the wake of a crisis like Covid-19. … Read more

Kelsey: Labour has shown a lack of political backbone on so-called ‘progressive’ TPPA

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If it signs the latest version of this controversial deal, Jacinda Ardern’s government can hardly expect people to take the promise of a progressive new model for New Zealand’s international trading relations seriously, argues leading TPPA critic Jane Kelsey. Read Stephen Jacobi’s positive take on the deal here The on-again, off-again Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) … Read more