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New Zealand's economy has suffered in
years. The Covid pandemic hurt the country's
industry. It has not yet recovered to pre-Covid levels. Another
that is affecting the
is the number of young people leaving New Zealand. Record
of people in their
are going overseas to work. Immigration Minister Erica Stanford hoped the
with the new visa will spend more
. This will boost the economy. She said: "I expect in their time here, visitors will spend longer than they
would. They will spend more because they're here for longer. And the thing that we're really hoping for, is that they fall in
with the place."