{"id":44118,"date":"2022-05-03T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/03\/new-zealand-finance-minister-tightens-the-belt-for-first-post-covid-budget"},"modified":"2022-05-03T11:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:55:59","slug":"new-zealand-finance-minister-tightens-the-belt-for-first-post-covid-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44118","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand finance minister tightens the belt for first post-Covid budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Robertson announces plans for new rules on spending and borrowing in first major pre-budget speech<\/p>\n<p>After two years of big spending to weather the storm of Covid-19, New Zealand\u2019s finance minister is tightening the belt, committing to limits on borrowing, introducing new debt caps and looking ahead to long-term spending on infrastructure over short-term cash injections.<\/p>\n<p>The finance minister, Grant Robertson, gave a glimpse of the vision for New Zealand\u2019s post-Covid economy in his first major pre-budget speech on Tuesday. This year\u2019s budget will also help set the political scene as the country heads towards a 2023 election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/03\/new-zealand-finance-minister-tightens-the-belt-for-first-post-covid-budget\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Robertson announces plans for new rules on spending and borrowing in first major pre-budget speechAfter two years of big spending to weather the storm of Covid-19, New Zealand\u2019s finance minister is tightening the belt, committing to limits on bor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/44118","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44118\/revisions\/44119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}