This inter-departmental report provides a broad range of indicators relevant to New Zealand’s economic performance. It has been prepared in order to inform economic debate and policy making. A growing, open, and competitive economy is a key means of delivering permanently higher incomes and living standards to New Zealanders. Without higher economic growth, the economy will not deliver higher living standards or the quality of life to which New Zealanders aspire. Government agencies publish a number of sets of indicators relating to a broad range of social, economic, and environmental outcomes. In this report, Economic Development Indicators 2011, the Ministry of.
