## New Zealand: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, May 26, 2025_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: May 26, 2025
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229011716.002

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### Overview and Scope
- Explores New Zealand’s productivity growth in a cross-country perspective.
- Reflects on business dynamism in New Zealand and its implications for productivity.
- Considers factors shaping the costs and incentives for investment and innovation toward a more productive economy.
- Evaluates trends in productivity growth in New Zealand and peer advanced economies in recent decades, both on aggregate and at the sector level.
- Considers drivers of productivity growth and the interplay of capital and labor inputs.

### Business Dynamism and Firm-Level Analysis
- Evaluates business dynamism in New Zealand relative to peers, with a focus on the experience of young, high-growth firms with the potential to make meaningful contributions to productivity growth.
- Discusses the availability and range of financing options for New Zealand’s firms.

### Impediments to Productivity and Growth
- Identifies regulatory frameworks as potential impediments to business dynamism and productivity growth.
- Highlights the pace of innovation and technological diffusion as a constraining factor.
- Notes infrastructure gaps as an obstacle to higher productivity.

### Policy Orientation and Recommendations
- Provides policy recommendations to address the obstacles to productivity growth identified (policy areas implicitly include improving financing availability, regulatory reform, accelerating innovation diffusion, and addressing infrastructure gaps).

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