For the first time in Australia, the Productivity Commission has sought to measure healthcare productivity growth in a way that accounts for improvements in healthcare quality. While we have spent more on healthcare, this research shows this has been more than outweighed by improvements in outcomes delivered by the healthcare system.

This paper finds that the discussion on climate change and productivity urgently needs broadening. While much of the debate on productivity and climate change has focused on the economic dimensions of productivity, notably labour productivity growth, improving productivity in the use of materials and natural capital is crucial to achieving net zero and requires much...

This paper examines how the New Zealand food and fibre sector could deliver more value to New Zealand in the context of an ageing population and the need to maintain quality public services in the decades ahead.

By exploring the multiple dimensions of public sector productivity, this report aims to contribute meaningfully to the debate about how to increase public sector productivity. It is also intended to provide researchers and policy-makers with a series of questions that prompt further exploration.

The Competition Review is inviting public submissions to this issues paper. The paper covers emerging concerns relating to non-competes and other restraint of trade agreements between businesses and workers, and no-poach and wage-fixing agreements between businesses.