In Aotearoa New Zealand and elsewhere, there is a growing policy focus on long-term, complex and systemic challenges and opportunities. This paper uses the term ‘transformative change’ to describe the extreme of this type of policy focus.

Policy-makers worldwide have long asked what makes one country or economy more resilient than another, or one region more resilient than another. ‘Resilience’ has been a topic of enduring interest to policy-makers and academics. If policy work aimed at improving resilience is to be effective, policy-makers need to be clear about what they mean by...

This report presents the findings of a literature review about New Zealand’s areas of economic strength (and critical weakness) compared with other countries

Mismeasurement of productivity is one possible explanation for the global productivity slowdown in recent decades. This article discusses the challenges of measuring productivity in the digital age.