 In the year from March 2008 to March 2009 –  before National delivered its first  Budget  – the economy  shrank 3. 5 per cent  and 33,000 more people became  unemployed. Over the past three years, National has been rebalancing the economy so it can again be competitive. At the same time, we’ve managed the economy through the worst of the global financial crisis, the recession, and the Canterbury earthquakes.
in favour of protectionism, for example tariffs, export subsidies