China’s economic rise Direct, indirect and induced impacts on the New Zealand economy

Speech to Public Symposium on New Zealand, Australia and China‟s rise. The symposium was organised by Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand and the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre, held at Victoria University of Wellington on 7 April 2011.

Each year NZIER devotes some of its resources to undertake and make freely available economic research and thinking aimed at promoting a better understanding of New Zealand’s important economic challenges. The preparation of this speech was funded from those resources.