{"id":18147,"date":"2020-05-13T09:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/13\/a-generation-defining-moment-delivering-new-zealands-pandemic-budget"},"modified":"2020-05-13T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:32:25","slug":"a-generation-defining-moment-delivering-new-zealands-pandemic-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18147","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A generation-defining moment&#8217;: delivering New Zealand&#8217;s pandemic budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Robertson faces a unique challenge: cushioning the economy from the fallout from Covid-19 in an election year and keeping wellbeing a priority<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Grant Robertson, New Zealand\u2019s finance minister, unveiled his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/30\/new-zealand-wellbeing-budget-jacinda-ardern-unveils-billions-to-care-for-most-vulnerable\">last annual budget<\/a> he told the country that its success would no longer be measured by economic growth and productivity, but instead by the wellbeing of the nation\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>A year on and one day before he reveals his new spending plan, Robertson\u2019s so-called wellbeing budget \u2013 a concept he intended would frame his fiscal policy for every future year of his term managing the country\u2019s books \u2013 faces an extraordinary and unexpected test: a dire global economic outlook caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, with local jobless numbers already topping those seen during the 2008 global financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/13\/a-generation-defining-moment-delivering-new-zealands-pandemic-budget\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Robertson faces a unique challenge: cushioning the economy from the fallout from Covid-19 in an election year and keeping wellbeing a priorityCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen Grant Robertson, New Zealand\u2019s finance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,268,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18148,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions\/18148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}