New Zealand Close to Recession as Economy Stutters: Statistics Bureau

New Zealand Close to Recession as Economy Stutters: Statistics Bureau
Members of the public enjoy their lunch at Riverside Market in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Dec. 3, 2021. Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images
Rebecca Zhu
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New Zealand may be heading into recession after Stats NZ revealed that national GDP had fallen into the red during the December quarter.

It comes a few months after the governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), Adrian Orr, admitted it was engineering a recession to combat inflation.