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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...

Providing 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...

As 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...

Special 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....

Special 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...

Special 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...

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...

Special Topic: HYEFU 2019 Business Talks In late September, officials from the Treasury visited a range of businesses and other organisations to discuss the outlook for the economy. Overall, the...

New Zealand's annual current account deficit currently sits at $10.6 billion, or 3.6% of GDP for the year ended March 2019, broadly in line with market expectations at the time of release, and...

The nominal neutral interest rate (NIR) is the unobservable interest rate that prevails in an ideal world where the economy grows at its trend rate, inflation is stable at its target and the output...