# Shamubeel Eaqub

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What does an economist actually do, and what can economics tell us about climate change?

In this episode of This Climate Business, Vicktoria Blake talks with Shamubeel Eaqub, Chief Economist at Simplicity, about how economists make sense of the world and why climate change is increasingly an economic issue, not just an environmental one. From inflation and investment to insurance, agri…

Is the recovery finally here in the NZ economy?

Economists and commentators across New Zealand have their calculators out and their fingers in the air trying to tell whether the recovery is really, finally on. The latest GDP numbers are modest, but at least have a plus in front of them, but what sits underneath the headlines? With an election ca…

Balclutha (Part 1)

Economist Shamubeel Eaqub recounts how the term 'zombie towns' created an outcry in rural New Zealand. Now, a decade on, he wants to understand if anything has changed in the provinces. Did he miss something back then? Why have the economic statistics started to change - albeit slowly? What's going…

Zombie Towns: Everything I Missed

Economist Shamubeel Eaqub recounts how the term 'zombie towns' created an outcry in rural New Zealand. Now, a decade on, he wants to understand if anything has changed in the provinces. Economist Shamubeel Eaqub finds out what's really going on in heartland New Zealand. Find The Detail on Newsroom …

The Tax Tea Part Two with Shamubeel Eaqub

We’ve talked tax with Brad Olsen. Now we’re hearing it from a different angle. This time on Both Sides Now, we’re joined by Simplicity economist Shamubeel Eaqub to ask some pretty basic questions that somehow get very complicated very quickly. Is our tax system actually fair? Are we taxing the righ…

Economy Made Simple #21 | What is government actually for?

In this episode of Economy Made Simple, Shamubeel Eaqub, Simplicity's Chief Economist, takes a step back from the election noise to ask a bigger question: what is government actually for? With campaigns full of talk about tax, spending, debt (and of course now KiwiSaver), Shamubeel argues we have l…