A $50 BILLION ECONOMY

摘要

The Maori economy currently represents $50 billion dollars in assets, which is approximately six percent of the total New Zealand asset base, according to a new Maori Investment Guide, commissioned by MBIE. The guide says the Maori economy is broadly defined as those privately owned and collectively-owned businesses that acknowledge their genealogical links to Maori ancestors and that Maori enterprises represent a rapidly growing segment of the wider New Zealand economy. "They are poised to accelerate their rate of growth and increase their relative proportion of New Zealand's asset base and GDP," the report says noting that while the NZ economy has been growing at 2-3 percent per annum many of the key economic indicators for the Maori economy have been improving more rapidly than this at >5 percent per annum (including the growth in assets and incomes).