Rural crises and adjustment in an agrarian country, New Zealand, 1975 to 1990

During the 1980s, New Zealand's primary producers experienced a crisis that derived from a combination of world-wide circumstances and previous governments' policies. Low productivity, global trade unfairness, and policy missteps thrust thousands of farmers into a debt emergency. At the moment of this crisis, a Labour Government was reorganizing the fiscal, monetary, and structural fundamentals of the entire economy with policies that increased …