Rangitaki: Staff Insights Blog

Following decades of rapid economic growth, China became the world’s second largest economy and New Zealand’s largest trading partner.

During September 2024, Treasury officials met with a range of businesses and organisations to discuss business conditions and the outlook for the New Zealand economy.

New Zealand’s future dairy export volume and price growth will likely be slower than previously experienced and a change in the product mix is unlikely.

New Zealand's current account deficit has widened considerably, owing to many factors including the disruption caused by the pandemic, poor agricultural production, and higher global interest rates.

In the Fortnightly Economic Update – 28 April 2023 there was a special topic titled “Impacts from the North Island weather events”.

This had been previously published on 27 April at Impacts from the North Island weather events.