What is GERS?
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GERS has less importance than some believe. The figures are estimates with a number of contested assumptions.
Full answer here: The Accounting Trick that Hides Scotland’s Wealth
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GERS is an annual estimate of the Scottish economy in the United Kingdom. GERS is produced by Scottish Government statisticians, independently of Scottish Ministers. It contains a number of estimates, as there is incomplete data collected for Scotland.
Full answer here: A description of GERS by Fraser of Allender Institute
Why is GERS C.R.A.P?
Author / Creator: Richard Murphy
Media type: Video
Date published: 2020
GERS is founded on a number of questionable bases.
Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland
Author / Creator: Wikipedia
Media type: Wikipedia
Date published:
Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) is an annual estimate of the Scottish economy as part of the United Kingdom. It was first published in 1992, and yearly since 1995, with the exceptions of 2007 where there was no report due to a methodology review, and 2016 where there were two annual reports due to an acceleration of publishing timescale.
FFS explains: what is the GERS report and what can it tell you?
Author / Creator: The Ferret
Media type: Fact check
Date published:
Published annually, the report details the difference between Scotland’s tax revenues and its public service expenditure.
A Guide to the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) Report
Author / Creator: Fraser of Allander Institute
Media type: Academic Paper
Date published: 2021
GERS does not present a balanced view of the Scottish economy. The possible financial costs and risks, or savings and opportunities, of implementing a new constitutional framework are, naturally, not considered in GERS. Similarly, it does not report on the effects of faster or slower economic growth in an independent Scotland.
Response to latest [2020/1] Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) estimates
Author / Creator: David Phillips
Media type: Assessment report
Date published:
The large debts shown by the 2020/1 GERS are temporary and not structural. They do not indicate that Scotland cannot afford to be inedpendent.
New GERS data fundamentally makes the case for Scottish Independence
Author / Creator: MacIntyre-Kemp, Gordon
Media type: business network website article
Date published: August 2021
It is clear that Scotland being an economic region of the UK is what is holding Scotland back from reaching that economic potential. The author sets out what the latest GERS figures represent and how they can be misleading in terms of Scotland's capabilities as an independent nation.