MOVING ON FROM: New Zealand's Productivity Paradox.

For many years New Zealand's productivity performance has been disappointing. This article outlines recent progress in understanding what could be driving this performance. It starts by drawing on Statistics New Zealand industry-level data, before summarising insights from firm-level research using linked data sets (the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD)). It then concludes with a high-level summary of directions of reform that could help improve New Zealand's productivity performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]