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Success Unshared is Failure

BY Max Rashbrooke

When it comes to social development, New Zealand is, overall, a successful country. On a range of indicators we achieve high levels of well-being, opportunity and access to basic needs. But the word ‘overall’ is crucial for it obscures New Zealand’s high levels of poverty, and inequality of income and wealth - powerful determinants of life outcomes. Structural factors have contributed to inequality and structural factors must be part of the solution, so that the successes New Zealand generates are widely shared writes Max Rashbrooke.

Success Unshared is Failure