Direct Foreign Investment
This graph should be a rocket up the independence movement's backside
Author / Creator: Robin McAlpine
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
Scotland’s position should shock you.
We are almost exactly as wealthy as the eurozone countries but we’re exporting wealth at twice the rate of even the most indebted poor countries.
PROFIT EXTRACTION: HOW FOREIGN OWNERSHIP DRAINS SCOTLAND’S WEALTH
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2025
How foreign ownership drains Scotland’s wealth
How foreign ownership drains Scotland’s wealth
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Research
Date published:
This paper examines data published by the Scottish Government on Scotland’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Income (GNI) which lays out the extend to which the profits from foreign-owned companies in Scotland are extracted outwith Scotland, how it is done and where the profits go.
International Scotland
Author / Creator: Adam McGeoch
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Scotland on the international stage relating to
■ Business, Trade, and Tourism in Scotland
■ Invest in Scotland
■ Scotland’s Transition to Net-zero
Scotland's productivity gap with international countries: research
Author / Creator: Ana Rincon-Aznar
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Scotland’s labour productivity gap with the top performing EU comparator region was close to 30% over the period 2009 - 2017. There are productivity gaps across all of capital, labour quality and total factor productivity.