Treasury – New papers on Māori wellbeing and the distribution of advantage

The Treasury will publish more background papers over the coming weeks and in early 2023, with advisories to be issued at the time. The following papers are planned for publication.

• Equality, equity and distributive justice A survey of the literature, addressing what is meant by concepts such as ‘equality’ and ‘equity’, and reasons why economic inequality might be problematic.

• Estimating the value of New Zealand’s Human Capability 1986-2018 Updating estimates of human capital using the 2018 Census. This paper extends previous analysis by estimating human capital for Māori and non-Māori.

• Pacific Peoples’ WellbeingThis paper explores Pacific worldviews and community structures, and why they matter to Pacific peoples’ wellbeing. It provides information about how Pacific people in New Zealand are faring across a range of wellbeing domains.