GDP
Answer:
In most years, Scottish GDP per head is larger than UK GDP per head when a geographical share of North Sea oil and gas extraction is included. This is higher than the OECD average.
Full answer here: GDP indicates Scotland has a good economy
The Costs of Dependency: the Tax Gap
Author / Creator: The Bottom Line
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
The growing economic gap between the UK and other advanced economies means that there is also a tax gap, making it challenging to fund good public services
The Myths of Perpetual Growth
Author / Creator: James Mackenzie
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
Growth is front and centre in the Tory Party’s ongoing meltdown
UK’s Failure to Recover from the Financial Crisis
Author / Creator: Bottom Line
Media type: Analysis
Date published: 2022
The UK has been one of the poorest performing economies since the financial crisis. The economic shock of the financial crisis was greater than most other advanced economies and the UK took longer to recover and even before Covid-19 was considerably smaller than it would have been had it matched the recovery achieved by others.
Long Term Performance of UK Economy and Small Countries
Author / Creator: Bottom Line
Media type: Analysis
Date published: 2022
The UK is in long term relative economic decline, falling further and further behind countries of a similar size and stage of development as Scotland. The choice that Scotland faces is to remain part of the declining UK economy, or to realise agency and take responsibility for improving the performance of the Scottish economy.
Understanding Scotland - Economy
Author / Creator: Mark Diffley
Media type: survey report
Date published: October 2021
People are feeling the financial sting of the pandemic. They are pessimistic about the economic and financial outlook. And with concern over rising prices. There is evidence of dissatisfaction with prevailing economic indicators and models. There is an appetite for a different economic settlement.
Exclusive: research shows Scotland would have benefitted more from independence than devolution
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Date published: 2021
Many countries have shown great success after independence, particularly in terms of GDP growth and developing their own currency. Overall, it can be suggested that full independence would have contributed to greater GDP growth for Scotland than devolution.
Beyond GDP: here’s a better way to measure people’s prosperity
Author / Creator: Henrietta Moore
Media type: News Media
Date published:
Rather than the outmoded measures of growth, productidvity and income, research indentified 15 headline indicators - a prosperity index - that reflect the actual experience of well being and security for people.
A Guide to Scottish GDP
Author / Creator: Fraser of Allander Institute
Media type: Guide
Date published: 2020
- Scotland's GDP per head is at the average of the OECD countries, just behind Great Britain.
- Gross Vaue Added per head - the most being 3 times the least area.
- Disposable income per head has much less variation.
- The Human Development Index shows Scotland very close to the UK
State of the economy
Author / Creator: Chief Economic Advisor
Media type: triannual government report
Date published: 2020 -
This is the three times a year report on the Scottish economy in an international context.
SCOTTISH ECONOMY OVERVIEW
Author / Creator: Scottish International Development
Media type: Web site
Date published: 2021-
This gives the Scottish economic statistics from an international investment point of view.
Economic commentary
Author / Creator: Scottish Enterprise
Media type: government report
Date published: 2021-
Monthly update on global, UK and Scottish economic trends and performance, drawn from a wide range of economic indicators and commentaries.
The truth about the annual GERS figures.
Author / Creator: The National
Media type: News Media
Date published:
There is no set of official accounts that tells us how an independent Scotland’s economy would fare, nor what its finances would look like.
Scotland’s Fiscal Future
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
The quest for GDP and GDP Growth is not sustainable in a finite world. Metrics such as environmental impact, inequality and wellbeing are far more important and only by elevating them above the quest for “growth at all costs” can a truly fair and sustainable Scotland be created.