Productivity growth has slowed across most OECD economies since the mid-2000s. While important aspects of New Zealand …’s economic performance have improved over this period, productivity growth is still comparatively low. This continues a long …-run trend of poor productivity in New Zealand, which is the key reason why average incomes are still below the OECD average …

direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose …

. Digital technologies offer opportunities to raise firms’ productivity and the population’s well-being. However, wide … productivity gaps between large firms and SMEs and between manufacturing and services weigh on economy-wide productivity, which is …

This report contains an empirical analysis of the productivity and sustainability performance of different types of … farms in thirteen countries. Farm productivity performance is measured through estimates of average productivity levels and … structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …