Walking the talk – engaging with indigenous communities
Engaging with disadvantaged communities is increasingly recognised as important by central banks
Financial markets looking for vital policy signals in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s six-weekly official cash rate announcements are first faced with three words: Tēna koutou katoa.
It’s a greeting from governor Adrian Orr in the indigenous Māori language, meaning “welcome all”. Orr is equally polite in his use of te reo (Māori language), ending his statements with meitaki – “thank you”.
Of half-Irish, half-Cook Island ancestry, Orr was brought up in the central North Island of New Zealand
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