The Productivity Commission was asked to identify policies and interventions that enhance the resilience of New Zealand’s economy and living standards to persistent medium-term supply chain disruptions. This report outlines the findings from the Commission's research.

New Zealand’s productivity performance matters for all New Zealanders. Improved productivity increases the nation’s income and the ability to produce and afford goods and services that underpin a happy and healthy life. This report provides an enduring policy and research agenda to address Aotearoa New Zealand’s productivity challenges.

This paper explores patterns of firm birth, growth and death, for cohorts of New Zealand firms born between 2002 and 2015, and examines the role of selection for explaining those patterns.

This paper examines the measurement of different domains of disadvantage – income poverty, deprivation, and social exclusion – to develop new disadvantage measures based on the dimensionality of disadvantage. These new dimensional measures are then used to examine the relationship between disadvantage and wellbeing. 

This report estimates the scale of persistent disadvantage in New Zealand across three domains, and examines who is more likely to experience it.