Regions
BERL is a recognised leader in providing regional information at a useful level of detail. We currently profile a number of regions including:
Rodney District
Thames-Coromandel Region
Bay of Plenty Region
Tauranga City
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Western Bay of Plenty District
Ruapehu District
Wanganui District
Kapiti-Horowhenua
Hutt City
Upper Hutt City
Porirua City
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Wairarapa Region
South Wairarapa District
Nelson District
Waitaki District
Ashburton District
Central Otago District
West Coast Region
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BERL has developed its own indicator for regional GDP, which we have derived from official sources. This and other indicators are available at a Territorial Authority level for a number of industries. Find out more about the information BERL can provide for your region. Some of the profiles we have done can be viewed by clicking on the region in the table above.
BERL ranks the regional performances of the Territorial Authorities across four economic indicators to determine the fastest growing areas of New Zealand. A selection of these reports are available here.
BERL also provides regional summaries from a labour market perspective for career services rapaura covering 16 regions. This information is updated yearly giving BERL an excellent insight into regional activity across New Zealand.
BERL also has experience in regional projections and regional strategies. Most recently BERL undertook a situation analysis for the Bay of Plenty region as the first stage of its regional economic development strategy. We have also provided regional economic projections for a number of regions including Taranaki, Northern Auckland and a growth model for the Selwyn district.
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03 May 2011
BERL has conducted economic profiles for regional and district councils, and economic development agencies across New Zealand.
An example of what these economic profiles provide can be viewed here in an economic profile of the Hawke’s Bay region. Using the latest data available, this profile assesses the Hawke’s Bay’s performance and composition over the past year (2010) as well as the region’s fastest growing industries »»
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18 Feb 2011
The BERL Regional Performance Indicators 2010 report ranks the performance of New Zealand’s 72 Territorial Local Authority’s (TLA) for 2010. The ranking is based on BERL’s Regional Performance Indicator which uses nine key performance measures, short and medium term (the last five years) population, Gross Domestic Product, employment, and business unit growth as well as an openness index to produce an overall performance »»
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The recovery of the Auckland economy is by no means a foregone conclusion.
That’s the message from Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL) and the AUT Institute of Public Policy’s (IPP) latest economic forecast for Auckland.
The second report in the quarterly series was launched today and forecast some improvements in various sectors but continued slow growth or the status quo »»
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I was recently invited to talk to the councillors at Dunedin City Council on how to encourage regional growth.
I believe that the answer is to increase population and investment, both private and public.
The key is to make the place more attractive to people and encourage mixed use, high density areas near city centres.
An overview of my discussion and its context »»
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BERL and the Institute of Public Policy at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) have combined to pull together an economic forecast for the Auckland region economy.
Latest employment data released last week confirm that the much-heralded end of the recession remains little more than a technicality. This is as true for the Auckland economy as it is for its national counterpart. The net 13,000 »»
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According to the BERL Regional Database, the Central Otago District had the best-performing economy in New Zealand in 2008. This was a step up from 2007 and 2006, when the District placed 2nd.
The BERL Regional Performance Indicators rank the performance of 72 New Zealand territorial local authority (TLA) economies. An equal weight is applied to four key performance indicators – »»
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06 May 2008
Tauranga City takes the prize as the best performing economy in 2007. Tauranga City has performed consistently well placing a top six finish in each of the last three years – it claimed 6th and 2nd place in 2006 and 2005 respectively.
A review of business frame data has seen a shake-up in the BERL rankings, which have had to be revised for the last three years.
The top ten are…
In 2007, Tauranga City was joined in the top »»
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16 Feb 2007
The Queenstown-Lakes District has topped the BERL regional performance indicators in 2006, its fourth straight year at the top in an index made up of four key economic indicators. However, this time it faced stiff competition from the Selwyn District, which leapt 20 positions to join Queenstown-Lakes in 1st place.
This year, just three of the top ten Local Authorities are cities. The top four places are held by South Island districts »»
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11 Jan 2006
The Queenstown-Lakes District has topped the BERL regional performance indicators in 2005 for the third year running in an index made up of four key economic indicators.
The diversity of areas in the top places reflects the widespread nature of New Zealand’s current growth cycle. However, another feature of the latest re-calculation of the regional performance ladder is the noticeable return of cities amongst the top »»
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13 Feb 2005
The country’s buoyant economic climate is being led by the sunshine and playground districts like Kaikoura, Tasman and Queenstown-Lakes. This reinforces the view that it is not purely the main urban centres that drive growth in the New Zealand economy.
The 2004 BERL analysis of regional performance has South Island districts (Territorial Authorities or TAs) taking four of the top five spots in an index made up of four key »»
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