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New Zealand Infrastructure Resilience Index - First edition, September 2025

NZIER worked with Downer to develop the Infrastructure Resilience Index, to show how resilient infrastructure is across key infrastructure sectors in New Zealand regions. Read more

Economic contribution of consulting: Focused on professional services firms working in the built and natural environment

ACE New Zealand commissioned NZIER to estimate the economic contribution that its members make. Read more

Valuing access to work: The 2025 update

This report examines the potential macroeconomic benefits of improving employment and educational outcomes for disabled people in New Zealand. Read more

Health priorities? A comparison of New Zealand’s public health and disability expenditure against selected OECD countries

Health systems operate differently around the world, and published research does not identify any one right way of organising or funding them. However, New Zealand’s health system is an outlier in its very low allocation of resources to pharmaceuticals and very high allocation of reso … Read more

Are we there yet? A submission on the Foreign Investment Fund (FIF)  provisions of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2025–26, Compliance Simplification, and Remedial Measures) Bill

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Ocrevus Subcutaneous: Valuing the benefits to people living with MS, whānau caregivers, and the health system

Ocrevus Subcutaneous (SC) is a new treatment for people with multiple sclerosis (MS), which is not funded by Pharmac. The key difference between Ocrevus SC and Ocrevus IV, which is funded by Pharmac, is that Ocrevus SC is delivered as an injection rather than by infusion. Clinically, … Read more

Agri-food supply chain modelling: review of the literature

A report for the AgResearch Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute. Read more

Longer, better, more sustainable lives: Five priority areas for investment in 2025

A report for the Selwyn Foundation. Read more

Regional consequences of climate change impacts on the primary sector: Economic analysis of scenarios for 2050

NZIER produced this macroeconomic analysis as part of a joint programme led by Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research. Read more

The value of freshwater angling: Assessing the economic contribution and wellbeing benefits of recreational angling in New Zealand

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