Aotearoa New Zealand’s productivity performance matters for all New Zealanders. Improved productivity increases the nation’s income and our ability to produce and afford goods and services that underpin a happy, healthy life. It also allows the nation to invest in public goods and services to benefit everyone – like education, health services, and infrastructure.

Improving productivity depends on action across a range of interconnected factors, while also requiring sustained focus over the long term. New Zealand also needs to look to the future to understand how global issues could impact on its productivity performance and anticipate the kind of investment required.

The Commission offers this report and the policy and research agenda proposed within it, as a starting point to inform an all-of-government productivity strategy that sets a clear vision for New Zealand’s future economy, and pathways to achieve it.