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NZIER’s Shadow Board considers negative OCR unnecessary

You can read the full release here.

Land-based industries see New Zealand through tough COVID times

Read our Insight here.

Tourism beyond Covid-19

Is the future sustainable, local and green?

Read our Insight here.

NZIER’s QSBO shows sharp fall in activity with businesses still downbeat 

Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, June 2020

The media release can be read here.

QSBO is available to NZIER members only.

Targeting support for rural communities in the COVID-19 recovery

Read the Insight here.

NZIER Consensus Forecasts shows growth outlook highly uncertain

Consensus Forecasts, June 2020

The report can be read here.

Coronavirus to deliver a sharp shock to the New Zealand economy 

Quarterly Predictions, June 2020

The media release can be read here.

Quarterly Predictions is available to NZIER members only.

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Sharply lower demand while business confidence stabilises at a low level

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Latest publications

  • Literature scan on the economic effects of social protection expenditure

    11 August 2020

    By Julian Williams

    NZIER prepared a literature scan to provide theoretical and evidential insights to a coalition (‘Coalition’) of non-government organisations (NGOs) with an interest in poverty into the microeconomic and long term macroeconomic growth effects of increases in social protection expenditure.

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  • Independent schools: What would a smart state do?

    10 August 2020

    By Derek Gill and Prince Siddharth

    Independent Schools of New Zealand commissioned NZIER to review the role of the independent schools sector and to review the performance of state system schools.

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25 August 2020 Quarterly Predictions, September 2020 - NZIER members only
14 September 2020 Consensus Forecasts, September 2020
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