John Walley says a thriving manufacturing & export sector would provide employment & higher wages, would be better for NZ than cheap imports

ANZ NZ's economics team look at key themes for 2013; Here's theme six  - All about jobs

ANZ NZ's economics team look at key themes for 2013; Here's theme five  - Asia; taking the story from the macro to the micro - it's all about execution

Bernard Hickey highlights the fierce choices facing policy makers as our population ages; shows 'productivity dreamers' can't solve the looming crisis

Treasury seeking ideas on what the Productivity Commission should do next; Your views?

Heaps of grass has helped agriculture grow three times as fast as the overall economy. Doug Steel wonders if this may even understate how well the rural sector is doing, given how the numbers were analysed in 2007/08

Social media and other great productivity impediments; How to be a contrarian; Are you a workaholic; Loan sharks; The costs and benefits of the family dog 

Maybe I'll take up smoking; The end of money; Six ways to pay off your mortgage faster; 43 lessons in life; Why the 40-hour plus work week is wrong

Ask (for a discount) and you shall receive; Wake-up Sleepyhead; Snowball myth or math; Social networking and productivity; Wither the homegrown talent?

Aussie pay gap reflects low-skill kiwi managers, workforce: NZIER