Opinion: The great irony of the Provincial Growth Fund is it helps to entrench centralism while wanting to make regions stand on their own two feet again.
Fri, 23 Feb 2018
For cynics, it would be easy to denounce the government’s provincial growth programme as a slush fund. However, I am not cynical about the government’s intentions. Its genuine aim is to close the gap between New Zealand’s growth areas and those other parts of the country once unflatteringly