{"id":18160,"date":"2020-05-13T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T05:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/13\/new-zealand-budget-no-playbook-for-covid-19-economic-recovery-says-ardern"},"modified":"2020-05-13T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T05:19:02","slug":"new-zealand-budget-no-playbook-for-covid-19-economic-recovery-says-ardern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18160","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand budget: &#8216;no playbook&#8217; for Covid-19 economic recovery, says Ardern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister promises a spending budget, calling cuts to essential services \u2018immoral and economically wrong\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern has warned there is \u201cno playbook\u201d to recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, as her government prepares to unveil New Zealand\u2019s budget in what she said were \u201cthe most challenging economic conditions\u201d since the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister\u2019s remarks followed an announcement that New Zealand had recorded a second consecutive day of no new cases of Covid-19. Ninety-four percent of New Zealand\u2019s confirmed and probable cases of the virus have now recovered, and 21 people have died.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/13\/new-zealand-budget-no-playbook-for-covid-19-economic-recovery-says-ardern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister promises a spending budget, calling cuts to essential services \u2018immoral and economically wrong\u2019Jacinda Ardern has warned there is \u201cno playbook\u201d to recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, as her government prepares to unveil New Zealand\u2019s bu&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160","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=18160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18161,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160\/revisions\/18161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}