New Zealand - Dollar parity wouldn't be a big problem for New Zealand

While a strengthening of the New Zealand dollar to parity against its Australian counterpart would be an important milestone, it would have little adverse economic impact. Indeed, the recent weakening in the trade-weighted index will provide a welcome boost to total export growth and CPI inflation.  

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