Roger Partridge: Netherlands shows NZ the way in reducing bureaucracy to boost economy

Rotterdam's port moves 460 million tonnes of cargo each year. That is roughly equivalent to shifting the entire population of Earth sixty times over. With barely a human hand involved.

This staggering fact was brought home during The New Zealand Initiative's recent expedition to the Netherlands. The delegation of 42 top business leaders witnessed first-hand how one of the world’s most flood-prone nations became one of its most prosperous societies.