Assessing and enhancing New Zealand's productivity

Authors

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Australian Productivity Commission

New Zealand Productivity Commission

OECD

Victoria University of Wellington

Date published

1 August 2018

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Policy Quarterly: Volume 14 – Issue 3 – August 2018

A special productivity issue of Policy Quarterly, guest edited by Dr Patrick Nolan from the New Zealand Productivity Commission.

It includes contributions from the New Zealand Productivity Commission, Australian Productivity Commission, OECD, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, and Victoria University of Wellington and covers the following topics:

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