Free Newsletter Get travel news, alerts, tips, deals, and trivia delivered free to your email in-box. New Zealand withdrew from a number of defense alliances during the 1970s and 1980s. In recent years the government has sought to address longstanding native Maori grievances. This dynamic growth has boosted real incomes, broadened and deepened the technological capabilities of the industrial sector, and contained inflationary pressures.
Inflation remains among the lowest in the industrial world.
Per capita GDP has been moving up toward the levels of the big West European economies. Moderate growth probably will characterize 2000. All rights reserved.