Economic Growth
Labour’s ambitions for growth can’t happen unless we get closer to Europe
Author / Creator: Bylines Scotland
Media type: Article
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Labour’s longest-serving former Member of the EU Parliament says ambitions for economic growth can only be achieved by closer alignment
Update: what big policy challenges face Scotland’s next first minister?
Author / Creator: Stuart Mcintyre
Media type: Article
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Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister has recently stepped down. His successor, John Swinney, faces a number of economic challenges related to growth, an ageing population, regional inequality and the transition to net zero.
Swinney must move beyond old orthodoxies
Author / Creator: Laurie Macfarlane
Media type: Article
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John Swinney, Scotland’s new first minister, faces no shortage of challenges. Lurking behind many of them lies a common cause: an economy that is not working.
Scottish economy expected to improve after slow growth in 2023
Author / Creator: Mairi Spowage
Media type: Article
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The economists are forecasting growth of 0.6% in 2024, 1.1% in 2025 and 1.2% in 2026. Whilst these forecasts are slightly weaker than previous forecasts, it still points to improving conditions in the economy over the course of this year.
How have the institutions of UK devolution affected economic performance?
Author / Creator: Esmond Birnie
Media type: Article
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It is sometimes argued that the experience of devolution for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales implies that the regions of England need greater decentralisation to improve policy delivery and economic outcomes. But the evidence from the devolved nations after 25 years is much more ambiguous.
From Growth to Good a ten-year growth plan for Scotland
Author / Creator: Dan Turner
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
Without higher rates of growth, we risk a corrosive culture where people come to think of the world as a zero-sum game – where we fight to claim our share of a diminishing pie; where we reach the view that in order for us to win, somebody else must lose. It is a path we must not choose.
The Hallmark of the UK Economy is Stagnation
Author / Creator: Ross McAlinden
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Scotland’s economic advantages have been squandered by the UK for too long.
Wellwashing. Why a superficial approach to Wellbeing Economics will fail
Author / Creator: Iain Black
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2023
An approach to economics that increases as maximises wellbeing must do so despite and regardless of the impact this approach would have on growth.
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.