19 New Zealand still lacks a complete set of national accounts, for example we do not have quarterly income GDP or flow of funds data. 20 Section 15 of the RBNZ Act 1989. 21 Nergiz Dincer and Barry Eichengreen Transparency Index 2014, available at http://eml.berkeley.edu/~eichengr/Dincer-Eichengreen_figures&tables_2014_9-4-15.pdf.
More ambitious fiscal positions than those targeted in Member States’ updated stability programmes should be achieved, particularly in countries with high debt ratios and especially if economic growth develops more favourably than expected.