The study found New Zealanders underestimate their ability and know more about financial matters than they realise.

John Key has signalled a rapid and unexpected rise in interest rates and "something big that happens internationally" as the biggest threats to the NZ economy.

New Zealand has more mobile broadband connections than people

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.

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.

Petfood, honey, a real estate agent, menswear, tea & coffee — you might not know it, but thanks to the Super Fund, you’ve got a stake in them all, reports Lesley Springall.

Would-be immigrants with higher-level English language skills may be given higher priority after an international review of New Zealand's migration policy.

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.

New Zealand has been named and shamed as one of the fattest countries in the world in a report report by the United Nations.

Emerging markets like India and China are becoming just as frustrated with international corporate tax rules as developed economies, says a KPMG partner.

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.