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The Consumer Price Index: New Zealand History and Interpretation
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Paperback. Editor(s): Forbes, Sharleen; Victorio, Antong. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBN; KCS; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 605.
Very few New Zealanders have lives unaffected by the Consumers Price Index (CPI). It is used by the New Zealand government to adjust student allowances, welfare benefits, and superannuation; by the Reserve Bank to guide monetary policy; by the old Court of Arbitration and by employers and employees to negotiate wages; and by the media to inform the public about the effects of price changes on their standard of living. Some of the contributions to this book document the New Zealand CPI as a history of conflicting machinations between unions, employers, public officials, and lobby groups. Others view it as ... Read more
Very few New Zealanders have lives unaffected by the Consumers Price Index (CPI). It is used by the New Zealand government to adjust student allowances, welfare benefits, and superannuation; by the Reserve Bank to guide monetary policy; by the old Court of Arbitration and by employers and employees to negotiate wages; and by the media to inform the public about the effects of price changes on their standard of living. Some of the contributions to this book document the New Zealand CPI as a history of conflicting machinations between unions, employers, public officials, and lobby groups. Others view it as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, New Zealand
ISBN
9780864739667
SKU
V9780864739667
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Ref
99-3
About
Sharleen Forbes is an adjunct statistics professor at the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and the general manager of statistics education at Statistics New Zealand. She is a former member of the International Statistics Institute's Committee on Women in Statistics, president of the New Zealand Statistics Association, and vice director of the International Statistical Literacy ... Read more
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