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Tane Mahuta Kauri

Productivity matters for wellbeing and requires a long-term …

3 July 2023

The New Zealand Productivity Commission Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa (the Commission) has release…

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Productivity Commission to release Productivity by the numbe…

27 June 2023

The New Zealand Productivity Commission Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa (the Commission) will releas…

Productivity Commission commissioners Dr Diane Ruwhiu Dr Ganesh Nana Dr Bill Rosenberg

New Zealand Productivity Commission welcomes new Commissione…

26 June 2023

The New Zealand Productivity Commission Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa welcomes Vicky Robertson as …

Dr Ganesh Nana standing in front of the NZ Productivity Commission signage

A future without persistent disadvantage is within our grasp

20 June 2023

The New Zealand Productivity Commission Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa (the Commission) has release…

Breaking the cycle of disadvantage girls running through the door of their new home

Productivity Commission to release final report on inquiry i…

13 June 2023

A fair chance for all, means all New Zealanders, present and future, feel proud of their cultural id…

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More work is needed to shift the productivity dial

1 May 2023

The New Zealand Productivity Commission Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa has released its findings an…

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Government response to Productivity Commission’s Immigration…

3 April 2023

The Government has released its interim response to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into immig…

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Call for submissions by Productivity Commission

28 February 2023

Improving Economic Resilience: Issues Paper

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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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…

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…

Frontier firms inquiry

New Zealand needs to do better at building world-class firms

20 April 2021

The New Zealand Productivity Commission today released the final report of its frontier firms inquir…

University of Waikato New Zealand Economics Forum

Economics for tumultuous times

3 March 2021

The University of Waikato's New Zealand Economics Forum today focused on enhancing the quality of pu…

Dr Ganesh Nana Chair of New Zealand Productivity Commission

Productivity = applying our taonga to deliver wellbeing

2 March 2021

In this note the new Chair of the Commission, Dr Ganesh Nana, introduces himself and some of his tho…

Frontier firms

Are New Zealand’s top firms keeping up?

26 February 2021

The Productivity Commission has published a report that compares the productivity performance of the…

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