Mar 23, 2018   -  An interview with university academic Atif Mian was published today in the Reserve Bank Bulletin.  Professor Mian was interviewed by Reserve Bank economists Özer Karagedikli and Anella Munro during a visit to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in December 2017. In the wide-ranging interview, Prof. Mian discusses why he entered economics, the effects of the Global Financial Crisis, why he does not consider the world has recovered from it, and the legacy and work of John Maynard Keynes. Prof. Mian is the John H. Laporte Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Finance, and Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, at Princeton University. His work has included analysis of the Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath. Read the Bulletin article: An interview with Atif Mian, Princeton University

| A RBNZ release  ||  March 23, 2018   |||

Mar 23, 2018  -  Robotics Plus has secured investment from Yamaha Motor's venture investment arm to help accelerate the robot maker's expansion plans and give it a partner with a global footprint and deep knowledge of manufacturing.

Germany, New Zealand, China and Brazil? Each has a unique cultural take on entrepreneurship's breadth and importance.

T&G Global Limited (T&G) has today entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement for the sale of the major assets of its subsidiary ENZAFoods New Zealand Limited (trading as T&G Foods) to Cedenco Foods New Zealand Limited (“Cedenco”).

Mar 23, 2018  -  Today marks a significant milestone at Cadbury, as the final production run – of Pineapple Lumps – rolls off the assembly line.

Mar 22, 2018  -  Statement by Reserve Bank Governor Grant Spencer:  The Reserve Bank today left the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 1.75 percent.

This infographic presents summaries of GDP by New Zealand region in 2017.

Mar 21, 2018  -  Duncan Coull, Chairman of the Fonterra Shareholders’ Council, said Farmers would welcome the increase in the forecast Farmgate Milk Price to $6.55 kg/MS but that the interim results announcement as a whole painted a disappointing picture for the first half of the financial year.

Mar 21, 2018  - Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited (Fonterra) today announced that, as part of a planned CEO succession process, the Fonterra Board and its CEO Theo Spierings have agreed that Mr Spierings will leave his role later this year.

Mar 21, 2018  -   AFT Pharmaceuticals, which manufactures the Maxigesic painkiller, is selling its "non-core hospital products" to Fortune 500 company Baxter Healthcare in New Zealand and expects to do the same in Australia