New Zealand: Selected Issues and Statistical Tables

International Monetary Fund

No 1998/003, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This Selected Issues paper examines saving trends in New Zealand. The paper highlights that although national saving has risen since the early 1990s, it remains below the levels recorded in the early 1980s, and the increase has been insufficient to finance the additional investment expenditure that has been encouraged by the strong economic performance in recent years. Further, national saving in New Zealand remains below the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country average, as it has been throughout the 1980s and 1990s. This paper also examines pension reform in New Zealand.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; saving; investment imbalance; unit value; household saving; investment balance; saving rate; high-saving group; General government saving; national saving; Pensions; Pension spending; Retirement; Aging; Private savings; superannuation system; reform experience; IMF UR; investment trend (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 102
Date: 1998-01-26
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