12 blog posts found
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MEI Special Topic: Adjusting for level shifts in labour market data
Posted: 30 Aug 2017Topic: Employment, Households, Labour force, Productivity, Statistics, Time series models, UnemploymentThis Special Topic uses estimates to re-estimate recent trends in employment growth, hours worked and labour productivity (GDP per hour worked). Statistics New Zealand updated the design of the... -
MEI Special Topic: New Zealand's goods and services trade flows
Posted: 3 Jul 2017Treasury Staff Insights: Rangitaki article by the Forecasting team This Special Topic provides an overview of New Zealand's trade composition and discusses some of the implications for the... -
Why does the world care about New Zealand? Lessons from the OECD
Posted: 16 Jun 2017Topic: Economic conditions, Emissions, Infrastructure, International investment, Organisations, Productivity, Technological change, Tertiary education, UnemploymentAuthor:“Coming from a country that has just recovered from a volatile housing market, I want to offer some suggestions for New Zealand...” We sat in an underground conference room, past two security... -
A snapshot of Government-owned commercial entity AsureQuality
Posted: 30 May 2017Author:This article provides a high level overview of AsureQuality (AQ), a 100% government owned entity specialising in food safety and biosecurity services to the food and primary production sectors. The... -
MEI Special Topic: Illustrating Forecast Uncertainty
Posted: 2 May 2017Topic: Budget, Economic conditions, Economic forecasting, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Interest rates, UnemploymentThe Treasury publishes economic forecasts at least twice during the year. These forecasts are communicated as a central track which represents our view of the most likely path the economy will take... -
Taking age into account
Posted: 18 Apr 2017Topic: Consumption, Cost of living, Fiscal policy, Households, Income, National accounts, Older people, Savings, Standard of living, Time series models, WealthAuthor:I sometimes wonder if my two kids, born in the late-1980s, will be part of a generation that won't have the economic resources, income and assets, in their middle age as my generation had. There is... -
Half-year Financial Results for State-owned Enterprises and Airports
Posted: 7 Apr 2017Author: ,This article provides an overview of State-owned Enterprises’ (SOEs’) and the Christchurch, Dunedin and Hawke’s Bay airports’ published six months financial results (the six months to 31 December... -
MEI Special Topic: March 2017 Business Talks
Posted: 4 Apr 2017Topic: Competition (business), Consumption, Economic conditions, Industry, Investment, Labour force, Pay, Prices, Primary industry, Regional development, Service industriesIn the second week of March, Treasury officials met with around 20 businesses in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to discuss the outlook for the economy. The information gathered will be used to... -
New Zealand Export Credit Office: Recent mandate and products changes
Posted: 28 Mar 2017This article explains the role of the New Zealand Export Credit Office (NZECO) and sets out the recent changes to NZECO’s mandate and products. Earlier last year, following a review by the Treasury... -
New Zealand on top of the world for ease of doing business
Posted: 15 Mar 2017Author:New Zealand always ranks highly in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business report. This year, we have come out first. What has brought about this change? Have we still got room for improvement?...