Nigel Latta 1 - The New Have & Have-Nots (First Episode)

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2014

One of the key things that's not in your control is what you are born into ... what you start with in life. And once you embed in a system that there are some people who start off ahead of the starting line than others, then the gap widens inevitably.
– Dr Ganesh Nana, Chief Economist at BERL (Business and Economic Research Limited)

The IMF [International Monetary Fund] and others have identified that when you have very unequal societies, they tend to be very slow growing societies, because rich people tend to invest in things like gold or land — things that don't actually generate lots of jobs and income.
– Financial commentator Bernard Hickey

Scientific research shows that there's a strong correlation between the levels of inequality and teen pregnancy, drug abuse, suicide, imprisonment and life expectancy.
– Presenter Nigel Latta

... I was stunned to learn that over the last few decades the divide between the rich and the poor in New Zealand has risen faster than any other OECD country, except one — with one in four kids now growing up in poverty. How on earth did this happen?
– Presenter Nigel Latta on New Zealand's place in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's statistics, at the start of the episode

...You'd think that having loads of rich people around would be a good thing — except it turns out that when there's a big gap between the haves and the have-nots, it does create some problems.
– Presenter Nigel Latta

Globalisation have accrued to those at the top, and the costs have been spread to middle and low income groups.
– Financial commentator Bernard Hickey

Latta presented a well-rounded, thoroughly researched hour which made a point of conveying the state of New Zealand's economy and future prospects in an easy to understand format, backed up by a great selection of experts in their field ... if last night's episode is of any indication, this series is fast turning out to be Latta's best television work.
– Stuff writer Jimmy Ryan on this episode, 13 August 2014

They were really jealous. I made a point of telling my children as they went off to school that I was going to spend a day in luxury accommodation being waited on hand and foot.
– Nigel Latta on his children's reaction to his flight to a private island [Rakino Island], for this episode, TV Guide, 28 July 2014(