The New Zealand Business Roundtable (NZBR) is a market-oriented thinktank based in Wellington, New Zealand. Businessman Robert McLeod chairs the organisation, with Diane Foreman and Bill Day as Vice-Chairs. Staff members include executive director Roger Kerr and policy advisor Norman LaRocque. Members, who pay a five-figure subscription fee, represent most of the large business interests in the country. The subscription fee funds the New Zealand Business Roundtable's activities. This article is about the institution. ... Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke) is the capital city of New Zealand and the countrys second-largest urban area. ... Roger Kerr is the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, the neo-liberal thinktank representing the interests of CEOs of New Zealands largest businesses. ... Categories: Business | Academic disciplines | School subjects ...

The New Zealand Business Roundtable has the aim of contributing to the development of sound policies that reflect New Zealand's overall national interests. To this end, the organisation produces a wide range of publications (books, reports, submissions) and undertakes other activities that inform/influence public debate on key policy issues. Over the years the organisation has brought many high-quality speakers to New Zealand, including Bjørn Lomborg, Francis Fukuyama, Martin Wolf of the Financial Times and Yegor Gaidar. Bjørn Lomborg Bjørn Lomborg (born January 6, 1965) is a Danish political scientist and former director of the Institute for Environmental Assessment in Copenhagen. ... Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952 in Chicago) is an influential American political economist and author. ... The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink broadsheet paper. ... Yegor Gaidar Yegor Timurovich Gaidar () (also transliterated Gaider) (born March 19, 1956) is a Russian politician who served as acting Prime Minister briefly under President Boris Yeltsin in 1992 from June 15 to December 14. ...

The NZBR strongly supported the highly controversial market-based reforms undertaken in New Zealand during the 1980s and 1990s. These reforms have allegedly played an important role in helping to lift New Zealand's economic growth rate significantly. The country now, coincidentally, boasts one of the lowest unemployment rates in the OECD. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organization of those developed countries that accept the principles of representative democracy and a free market economy. ...

The NZBR's market-based policy reforms continue to reflect world monetarist best-practice and often appear in line with those advocated by organisations such as the OECD and the International Monetary Fund. Its policies also track the alleged world-wide trend toward greater use of the private sector and improved regulation of business and enterprise. Monetarism is a set of views concerning the determination of national income and monetary economics. ... The flag of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the international organization entrusted with overseeing the global financial system by monitoring foreign exchange rates and balance of payments, as well as offering technical and financial assistance when asked. ... The private sector of a nations economy consists of those entities which are not controlled by the state - i. ...

External link

• Business Roundtable website.