Industry Planning, Industry Policy and Technical Change : a Study of New Zealand's Manufacturing Industries 1951/52 to 1972/73

Abstract

In 1975 the New Zealand Government launched a major new initiative in industry policy, the Industry Studies Programme. The Programme was motivated by the need for 'an improvement in the trend rate of sustainable long-term economic growth.. which must come from higher productivity'. In particular, 'considerable gains in growth and productivity' were expected of the manufacturing sector. The objective of the Programme was to advise government on how these gains might be encouraged, through an appropriate mix of the 'various forms of assistance to industries... viewed as a totality'.