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Call for submissions by Productivity Commission

28 February 2023

Improving Economic Resilience: Issues Paper

Challenges and opportunities identified for final report

23 February 2023

Summary of what we heard from submissions on our interim report for the A fair chance for all inquir…

Request for proposals for economic modelling

8 December 2022

The Productivity Commission is requesting proposals for economic modelling of supply chain disruptio…

Productivity Commission investigating NZ’s economic resilien…

8 November 2022

The Government has asked the Productivity Commission Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa to begin an inq…

Productivity Commission undertaking Frontier Firms follow-on…

3 November 2022

The Government has asked the Productivity Commission Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa to  undertake a…

Interim report on A Fair Chance for All

29 September 2022

Productivity Commission interim report calls for conversation on barriers and shifts needed to give …

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Black-box immigration policymaking should be made transparen…

31 May 2022

The Productivity Commission today released its final findings and recommendations from its inquiry i…

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The Government responds to our frontier firms report

14 April 2022

The Government has released its response to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into maximising th…

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Inquiry confirmed into breaking the cycle of persistent disa…

22 December 2021

The Government has asked the New Zealand Productivity Commission Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa to …

Te Papaiouru Marae Rotorua

Treaty interest in immigration policies needs to be recognis…

9 November 2021

“The Treaty of Waitangi was New Zealand’s first immigration document” said Commission Chair Dr Ganes…

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Immigration policy is disconnected from infrastructure and h…

8 November 2021

The inability or unwillingness to build the infrastructure needed to support and settle people in th…

A fair chance for all

Call for public input: Help Kiwis get a fair chance in life

19 July 2021

The Government has recently asked the Productivity Commission to prepare the Terms of Reference for …

Commission welcomes moves to measure the gig economy

12 July 2021

The Productivity Commission welcomes the Government’s response to its 2020 Technological change and …

Immigration settings New Zealand

An immigration system fit for the future

21 June 2021

The Productivity Commission today published an issues paper for its inquiry into New Zealand’s worki…

A fair start for all

New inquiry: A fair start for all

15 June 2021

The Government has asked the New Zealand Productivity Commission Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa to …

Productivity Commission vacancies

Help identify creative policy solutions to the challenges fa…

4 June 2021

We are looking for Policy advisors and researchers (at all levels) to contribute to Commission inqui…

New Zealand's productivity

Productivity by the numbers

27 May 2021

Productivity matters.

Improved wellbeing

Inquiry into New Zealand’s immigration settings confirmed

3 May 2021

The Government has requested the Productivity Commission Te Komihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa inquire int…

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