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OECD calls for NZ infrastructure improvement

17 years ago

New Zealand needs to reduce domestic infrastructure bottlenecks and maximise the efficiency of its international maritime trade, according to the Economic Survey of New Zealand 2009.

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Prepared by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the report called on the Government to boost productivity and make the country the “region’s most attractive business environment”.

“This requires structural policy changes in many areas, from lowering the costs of moving people, goods, capital and ideas between New Zealand and the rest of the world to ensuring domestic policy settings make it attractive to innovate, locate in or do business with New Zealand,” it said.