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  • 6-May-2024

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    Improving education, competition, and climate mitigation and adaptation key priorities for New Zealand

    New Zealand’s economy is steadily rebalancing after a post-COVID-19 period of overheating followed by weak growth. Economic growth is slowly picking up and inflation is easing. Lower inflation is expected to improve real incomes and economic growth in 2025, a recent OECD report explains.

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  • 7-November-2023

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    Health at a Glance 2023: Key findings for New Zealand

    Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data and trends on population health and health system performance. This Country Note shows how New Zealand compares to other OECD countries across indicators in the report.

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  • 11-May-2023

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    OECD Development Co‑operation Peer Reviews: New Zealand 2023

    The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. Reviews seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of members’ development co-operation, highlighting good practices and recommending improvements. New Zealand is a valued partner in the Pacific where most of its official development assistance (ODA) is delivered. Led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, its commitment to national and regional ownership, efforts to draw on indigenous knowledge and values, and scaled-up climate finance commitments attest to New Zealand’s engagement and relevance. This peer review provides recommendations for New Zealand to make the most of the closer integration of foreign and development policy in the Pacific, reinforce human resources, enable efficient and effective decision making, strengthen transparency, build public understanding of development, foster the linkages between climate-related investments and other priorities, and establish a plan for increasing ODA to deliver on New Zealand’s strategic goals.

  • 25-April-2023

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    Taxing Wages: Key findings for New Zealand

    The tax wedge for the average single worker in New Zealand increased by 0.7 percentage points from 19.4% in 2021 to 20.1% in 2022. The OECD average tax wedge in 2022 was 34.6% (2021, 34.6%).

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  • 30-November-2022

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    Revenue Statistics: Key findings for New Zealand

    The OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics report found that the tax-to-GDP ratio in New Zealand did not change between 2020 and 2021, remaining at 33.8%. Between 2020 and 2021, the OECD average increased from 33.6% to 34.1%.

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  • 4-April-2022

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    New Zealand: Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the OECD

    Biographical note of New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the OECD.

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  • 15-September-2021

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    Industrial Policy for the Sustainable Development Goals - Increasing the Private Sector’s Contribution

    How can governments support the private sector’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? This book investigates the contribution of firms to the SDGs, particularly through their core business, taking into account inter-sectoral linkages and global value chains, using novel techniques and data sources. Despite the fact that the private sector has the potential to contribute to a wide range of SDGs, and that many firms find it economically viable to develop sustainable products and services, firms still face significant hurdles in their sustainability transition. Based on this new evidence, this book provides some recommendations on the design of industrial policies to enhance the contribution of businesses to the SDGs.

  • 24-June-2020

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    Over the Rainbow? The Road to LGBTI Inclusion - How does New Zealand compare?

    This note provides a comprehensive overview of the extent to which laws in New Zealand and OECD countries ensure equal treatment of LGBTI people, and of the complementary policies that could help foster LGBTI inclusion.

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  • 16-June-2020

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    Decarbonising Urban Mobility with Land Use and Transport Policies - The Case of Auckland, New Zealand

    The report presents an in-depth analysis of various policies that aim to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of urban transport. Decarbonising transport lies at the core of efforts to mitigate climate change and has close links to urban sustainability and housing affordability. The report identifies the drivers of rising emissions in the urban transport sector and offers pathways to reduce them through a combination of transport and land use policies. The analysis yields a holistic welfare evaluation of these policies, assessing them according to their environmental effectiveness, their economic efficiency and their impact on fiscal balance and housing affordability. The report concludes that significant reductions in emissions from urban transport can be achieved through a careful alignment of transport policies designed to promote the use of public transit and electric vehicles, and land use policies, which foster a more compact urban form. The study is based on the case of Auckland, New Zealand but the lessons drawn are relevant for institutions and governments working on issues relating to urban sustainability, transport, housing and climate change mitigation.

  • 9-March-2020

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    How's life in New Zealand?

    This note presents selected findings based on the set of well-being indicators published in How's Life? 2020.

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