Frequency: Every 18 months
Tables: 15
Charts: 45
Electronic format: Acrobat PDF
Description
OECD's 2011 periodic review of New Zealand's economy. This edition includes chapters covering sustainable growth, rebalancing housing markets, product market regulation, and green growth and climate change policies.
Table of contents:
Executive summary Assessment and recommendations Chapter 1.Adjusting towards a sustainable growth path -Macroeconomic developments. -Monetary and fiscal policies -Structural factors behind macroeconomic imbalances -Policies to promote more balanced growth -Annex 1.A1. Progress in structural reforms Chapter 2.Policies to rebalance housing markets -Features of the housing boom -The nature of housing demand -Are households’ portfolios too concentrated in housing? -The role of favourable tax policies -The social housing sector -Reducing supply -Annex 2.A1.Housing-related taxation: Interest deductibility, imputed rent and capital gains tax Chapter 3.How to move product market regulation back towards the frontier -New Zealand’s long-run productivity performance continues to disappoint -The regulatory framework needs to be top notch -New Zealand’s regulatory advantage has been eroded away -Policies to improve product market regulation Chapter 4.Green growth and climate change policies -Green growth – a long-run competitive advantage -Sustainable development: growth within limits -Climate protection