This collection of speeches, submissions and articles is the sixteenth in a series produced by the New Zealand Business Roundtable. The material in this volume is organised in six sections: economic directions; the public sector; industry policy and regulation; education and the labour market; social policy; and miscellaneous. It contains two papers by Bryce Wilkinson, consultant to the NZBR, and an article by Cathy Buchanan and Peter Hartley, authors of the book Equity as a Social Goal published by the NZBR.