Building strong relationships and understanding right across the economy and society helps give us the best chance of making good policy decisions, and enables us to communicate our approach back to our wide range of partners and stakeholders to build confidence and trust. I think the best recent example of this is our recent work on the Future of Cash (Te Moni Anamata).
This involved an extensive consultation right across the country on the role of cash in our society, and prompted a huge reaction of over 2,000 responses. 21 We received a clear  See ‘Emerging Challenges and Lessons from The Māori Economic Renaissance’ https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/research-and-publications/speeches/2019/speech2019-09-27. 20 See, for instance, Māori Economy in the Greater Wellington Region and Māori Economy in the Waikato Region.