Our proposed topic

New Zealand’s future productivity to 2050: Global trends, domestic factors, strategic choices

The subject will explore how global trends, such as those related to geopolitics and technology, as well as New Zealand specific factors, including our economic strengths, might affect New Zealand’s productivity performance over the next ten years, and through to 2050.

It will present strategic choices that should be considered, in the near term, say within the next four to five years, to improve New Zealand’s productivity and associated outcomes such as living standards.