Capital investment
Community benefits from natural capital investment; Route map
Author / Creator: Scottish Land Commission
Media type: Guide
Date published: 2025
This Route Map has been created as a guide for how to discuss and embed proportionate community benefits in natural capital projects, ideally from the outset.
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.
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.