68 blog posts found
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The Economic Update cycle: how, why, and when the Treasury is forecasting
Posted: 17 Jun 2021Budget 2021 capped a particularly busy forecasting and fiscal reporting year for the Treasury – one punctuated by September’s Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU), which is ordinarily in... -
WEU Special Topic – Alert Level Assumptions Refresh (BEFU 2021)
Posted: 23 Apr 2021Topic: Economic forecastingSpecial Topic – Alert Level Assumptions Refresh (BEFU 2021) The economic effects of COVID-19, and the corresponding alert level restrictions and support measures that have been put in place, are now... -
WEU Special Topic - March 2021 Business Talks
Posted: 9 Apr 2021Topic: Economic forecastingSpecial Topic - March 2021 Business Talks Between 3 March and 12 March 2021, officials from the Treasury met with a range of businesses and other organisations to discuss the outlook for the economy... -
Conversations about the future
Posted: 6 Apr 2021Author:An introduction to a set of interviews about demographics, climate change and their implications with selected Māori and Pacific leaders and experts. As part of the work for the Treasury's 2020 Long... -
Economic advice in a time of COVID: How the New Zealand Treasury navigated the uncertainty of the global pandemic
Posted: 5 Feb 2021Topic: COVID-19Providing advice amongst the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic created new analytical challenges for the Treasury and other government agencies. This blog describes how the Treasury advised from... -
2020: The Treasury’s ‘Year of COVID’
Posted: 28 Jan 2021Topic: COVID-19As the Government’s lead economic and financial advisor, the Treasury’s major focus in 2020 and into 2021 has been leading work across the whole of government to support the COVID-19 economic... -
WEU Special Topic: HYEFU Business Talks
Posted: 23 Nov 2020Topic: Economic forecastingSpecial Topic: HYEFU Business Talks Between 28 October and 4 November 2020, officials from the Treasury met with a range of businesses and organisations to discuss the outlook for the economy.... -
WEU Special Topic: Economic developments since Budget
Posted: 26 Jun 2020Special Topic: Economic developments since Budget There have been several significant developments in the period since the Budget Economic and Fiscal Update (BEFU) scenarios were finalised that... -
MEI Special Topic: COVID-19 impacts
Posted: 9 Apr 2020Special Topic: COVID-19 impacts With the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the economic outlook has become increasingly uncertain. Despite the uncertainty, it is becoming more likely that New... -
Living Standards Framework Dashboard update
Posted: 3 Mar 2020Author:If you use the Treasury’s Living Standards Framework (LSF) Dashboard to assist with policy analysis and measurement, you may have noticed some pre-Christmas changes. The LSF Dashboard (the Dashboard...