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Addressing the Pandemic's Medium-Term Fallout in Australia and New Zealand

Bannister, Geoffrey J.; Finger, Harald; Kido, Yosuke; … - 2021

another important aspect of the pandemic: its fallout on medium-term potential output through scarring. Taking Australia and …

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When will New Zealand catch up with Australia?

Le, Trinh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

New Zealands average income, defined as GDP per capita, is now three quarters that of Australia and even lower than in … Australias poorest state, Tasmania. Over the last seven years, New Zealand has grown slightly faster than Australia, but at these … rates, it would still take 140 years to close the trans-Tasman income gap. To catch up with Australia in five to 10 years …

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Institutions, Firms and Economic Growth

Frances, Jane - 2004

This paper reviews the literature on institutions and explores the ways in which institutions can influence economic growth, with a particular focus on how institutions affect the use that firms make of human capital to improve their productivity. It discusses the influence of underlying...

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Adult literacy and economic growth

Johnston, Grant - 2004

Developed countries, including New Zealand, used to consider their populations wholly literate, in the sense that almost all adults could read and write. Contemporary definitions expand the concept of literacy to include wider cognitive skills, and extend it across the whole population: people...

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New Zealand's Economic Growth : Fantastic, Feeble, or Further Progress Needed?

Hall, Viv - 2010

Previous research has evaluated New Zealand's growth performance in the context of a decade of microeconomic and macroeconomic reforms, and concluded that on balance there is scope for cautious optimism on the sustainability of recently improved economic growth (Hall, 1995, 1996). That research...

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Productivity Growth in New Zealand : Economic Reform and the Convergence Hypothesis

Hunt, Ben; Conway, Paul - 2012

The recent productivity experience of the New Zealand economy is examined using a cyclically-adjusted or trend measure of Total Factor Productivity (TFP). On the basis of this measure, the results of estimating a leader-follower convergence relationship suggest that productivity in New Zealand...

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