NZ finance minister focusing on long-term fiscal project over fixed surplus date
- Monday, 06 August 2012
In an exclusive interview with KangaNews, New Zealand's deputy prime minister and minister of finance, Bill English, stresses the government's long-term process of fiscal consolidation over the current timeline for projected budget surplus by 2014/15. English also acknowledges the importance of an effective government bond market but does not commit to maintaining issuance as and when the sovereign borrowing task falls.
