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Income tax in New Zealand lowest in OECD
A Kiwi family with two children on a single income pays the least amount of income tax in the OECD.
A Kiwi family with two children on a single income pays the least amount of income tax in the OECD.
Growing gap between rich and poor drags economic growth lower.
Non-standard work has grown much faster than traditional employment following the economic crash of 2008.
BusinessNZ chief executive Phil O'Reilly is resigning from his role at the end of the year after a decade in the job.
The number of billionaires has doubled since the start of the financial crisis, according to a report from anti-poverty campaigners.
Just as Mainlanders have always thought, life in the South Island is better than life in the North Island, according to a new OECD report.
The economist who first said NZ’s economy had achieved “rock star” status has conceded that outlook has now clouded.
The world's appetite for chicken is growing faster than any other meat, while pork consumption is slowing, according to an OECD report.
When we were the world's third wealthiest country in 1953 I was a sport-obsessed adolescent fourth-generation New Zealander living in a virtual paradise.
Paul Bloxham, who dubbed NZ 'the rock star economy', is sticking to his guns. He said the NZ economy was still powering ahead and was likely to outstrip other members in the OECD.
The New Zealand healthcare system is one of the most effective in the world, according to a recent study.
When the likes of the OECD look at our structural economic policy settings and compare them to what has worked in other countries, they reckon we should be doing a lot better than we are, writes Brian Fallow.
New Zealanders work longer hours than the average of their peers in other developed countries but produce a fifth less, a new report finds.
According to the OECD, New Zealanders waste a lot of time and money on tertiary education.
A major new global plan aimed at forcing multinationals to pay more taxes has been described as underwhelming and disappointing by a Kiwi tax expert.
New Zealanders are beginning to realise the Australian dream is not so perfect and the grass may in fact be starting to become greener over here.
New Zealand's research and development spend rose to $2.6b last year but remains far below many other OECD countries as a proportion of GDP.
NZ has been ranked the best place in the world to be a working woman - but one advocate says the major obstacles and inequalities for women here are getting worse.
The Government has ignored a recommendation by the United Nations for legislation to dictate a maximum number of work hours to reduce the risk to workplace health and safety.
To disguise what it is doing, the Beehive has ordered the Ministry for the Environment to abandon the five-yearly State of the Environment round-up report, writes Neville Peat.
Editorial: Steven Joyce is not the first Tertiary Education Minister to be frustrated by the discrepancy between the courses offered by universities and what the country needs.