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Ownership of companies in Scotland
No full textIn the August 2004 Quarterly Economic Commentary Brian Ashcroft raised important questions about corporate structure in Scotland and how far it can be characterised as unduly dominated by a few very large firms. This claim, advanced in the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) study Wealth Creation in Scotland (May 2004), rested on calculations that allocated to value added within Scotland all income from employment and profits generated by companies that were registered or headquartered in Scotland. In fact, as Ashcroft argues, Scotland's largest companies tend to have a majority of their workforce employed outside Scotland. Recalculating value added in Scotland to take account of this produces a significantly different picture. With the giant firms cut down to size – particularly the two big banks and the energy companies – Scotland's corporate profile falls more into line with that of other smaller European countries. This paper seeks to raise, in an explorative way, questions about another aspect of the Royal Bank argument: the assumption that all these firms can be treated as "Scottish" and their performance – compared with that of firms in Finland or Belgium - used as the key indicator of the health and competitiveness of an entity described as the "Scottish economy"
Outlook and appraisal [March 2000]
No full textThe latest quarter quarterly GDP data from the Scottish Executive for the second quarter 1999 indicate that growth strengthened in both Scotland and the UK. Overall, the Scottish economy outperformed the UK economy in the second quarter and generally did so over the preceding four quarters in all principal sectors with the exception of the service sector. In the labour market, the latest employment and unemployment data indicate that there has been a continuing improvement in the Scottish labour market since the second quarter of 1999. The outlook remains favourable. Although there are legitimate concerns about the effect of the recent interest rate rises on the growth of the Scottish economy, the evidence suggests that the economy is performing as least as well as the UK when one year is taken with another. We expect this to continue for the foreseeable future. Growth is forecast to be weaker in Scotland this year than in the UK, but stronger in 2001 and similar to the UK in 2002
The GERS report indicates that Scotland’s finances are in dire shape
No full textA report recently published details Scotland’s fiscal position for the year 2013-14. It shows that relative to the UK as a whole, Scotland has been running a significantly higher deficit and has been doing so for 12 of the past 16 years. This is before the oil price collapsed, suggesting next year’s position may be still worse. Brian Ashcroft reviews the report and writes that if Scotland had been independent, or had ‘enjoyed’ full fiscal autonomy, with other things remaining equal, it would have had to have higher taxes, lower public spending or both than the UK
Author Interview with Brian D. Anderson
No full textBrian D. Anderson was our feature artist of the week, October 19th - 23rd, 2020.https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/vid_presentations/1010/thumbnail.jp
Outlook and appraisal [June 2013]
No full textClearer signs of a recovery are now emerging within the Scottish economy. This is to be welcomed. But despite the recent good survey evidence the recovery is far weaker than would be expected 5 years after a recession, even a recession generated by a banking crisis. The reason for this stagnation and anaemic recovery is twofold: the UK government's fiscal consolidation programme and a weak export performance reflecting both supply-side structural problems in the UK and Scottish economies as well as weak global demand. [This section appraises the current state of Scottish economic performance and explores the economic outlook.
Competition policy. by Brian Ellis
No full texttag=1 data=Competition policy. by Brian Ellis
tag=2 data=Ellis, Brian
tag=3 data=Australian Rationalist,
tag=5 data=46
tag=6 data=Autumn/Winter 1998
tag=7 data=51-56.
tag=8 data=ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
tag=9 data=COMPETITION%CORPORATISATION%NATIONAL COMPETITION POLICY%PRIVATE SECTOR PUBLIC SECTOR EFFECTIVENESS%SERVICE DELIVERY%SOCIAL POLICY%INNOVATION
tag=10 data=Examines the Government's National Competition Policy in relation to encouraging R&D, and the corporisation of public services and utilites. The author is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe UNiversity and Vice-President of the Rationalist Society of Australia. Article Taken from What's New.
tag=13 data=CABExamines the Government's National Competition Policy in relation to encouraging R&D, and the corporisation of public services and utilites. The author is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe UNiversity and Vice-President of the Rationalist Society of Australia. Article Taken from What's New
Art Behind Gaming: Brian D. Anderson
No full textA discussion with author Brian D. Anderson about worldbuilding in fantasy. Part of the Art Behind Gaming Online Con.https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/vid_presentations/1046/thumbnail.jp
In Honour of Brian MacWhinney: A Personal Account
No full textWhile this volume and the writings have made it amply clear what significant contributions Professor Brian MacWhinney has made to the field at large, in this afterword, we begin with a senior member of our author team (Ping Li, PL) followed by a mid-career member (Helen Zhao, HZ) and an early career member (Zhe Gao, ZG), to provide our personal accounts of Brian not only as a leading scholar but also as a role model who touches and changes people’s lives
Response to paper by Alexander Dow and Catherine Kirk "The number of Scottish businesses and economic policy"
No full textThe figures in the paper by Alexander Dow and Catherine Kirk are indeed a disappointment. They reflect the serious debate on Scotland's progress towards the Business Birth Rate Strategy's objectives that began after we published our own "Five Years On" report on the Strategy's progress in 1998. The debate became more pronounced this year with the publication of the 1999 year-end New Business Statistic (based on data from the Scottish clearing banks) which showed a marked drop in the number of starts - at a time when the economy overall seemed to be quite healthy
The world economy [November 1987]
No full textRecent events have been dominated by a major collapse of share prices in the world's stock markets followed by instability in the foreign exchange markets and a significant downward movement in the exchange value of the dollar. By the end of the first week of November, the stock markets in London, Frankfurt, New York and Tokyo had fallen by 32 30 25% and 15 respectively, since the middle of October. Uncertainty about the attempts to cut the US Budget deficit, the course of the dollar and the future of the Louvre accord on exchange rate stabilisation , continued to have a depressing effect on share prices. While the depressing effects on trade and growth in the world economy of a once-and-for-all fall in share prices of this magnitude should be limited and not of recessionary proportions, continued uncertainty could seriously damage business confidence making a major recession more likel
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