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Apr 20, 2008
Globalisation: Get Used To It
Fran O'Sullivan looks at the Fisher and Paykel closure today in the HOS. It, along with the ANZ job movement to India, are symptoms of a wider phenomenon - globalisation. We need to get used to it, but as Fran points out, if Government had listened and cut the growth in expenditure, we might not be experiencing the downside so quickly....