IMF Staff Country Reports

New Zealand: Selected Issues

October 27, 2000

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New Zealand: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper discusses the issues related to reforms and growth in New Zealand. The paper analyzes the record on growth and productivity outcomes in a comparative perspective. The study provides a brief history of the industrial relations in New Zealand leading up the passage of the employment contracts act. The paper assesses the monetary policy framework, central bank decision-making processes, and also reviews the possible extensions to full funding of the country's future superannuation expenditures.

Subject: Employment, Expenditure, Inflation targeting, Labor, Labor markets, Monetary policy, Pension spending, Pensions

Keywords: Africa, Australia and New Zealand, CR, Effects of the ERA, Employment, Global, Growth experience, Inflation targeting, Interest rate, ISCR, Labor markets, North America, Pay, Pension expenditure, Pension spending, Pensions, Policy lesson, Private sector, Productivity outcomes in New Zealand, Spending

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    121

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2000/140

  • Stock No:

    1NZLEA0032000

  • ISBN:

    9781451830262

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685