1 UK economic outlook: Brexit Britain in Covid recovery ward

The study aimed to reveal the competitiveness of the world dried sector for some selected products such as dried apples, prunes, apricots, figs, and grapes. In the study, the data was subjected to the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Relative Export Advantage (RXA), Relative Import Advantage (RMA), Relative Trade Advantage (RTA) and Relative Competitiveness (RC) indices. RCA is an index developed by Balassa to determine the competitiveness of a specific country for selected products or goods. To demonstrate the economic outlook for the world dried sector, the 2007 to 2017 data of China, USA, Chile, Germany, Iran, the Netherlands, South Africa, France, Uzbekistan, Argentina, Spain, Turkey, and India were compared, these countries dominating the sector of selected dried agricultural products. The results demonstrated that the world dried sector is very responsive to economic crises and to local currency rate. The RCA index was found to be 4.66 in 2007 for Turkey and it decreased to 4.45 by 2009 during the world economic crisis. The other breaking point was 2013 when Turkey experienced both economic and political crises.

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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: 2021 Economic Outlook

Africa Research Bulletin Economic Financial and Technical Series ◽

10.1111/j.1467-6346.2021.09978.x ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 58 (3) ◽

Keyword(s):

Development Bank ◽

African Development ◽

African Development Bank ◽

Economic Outlook

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Global economic outlook – the world in its grip: Covid-19

National Institute Economic Review ◽

10.1017/nie.2021.7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 255 ◽

Author(s):

Barry Naisbitt ◽

Janine Boshoff ◽

Dawn Holland ◽

Ian Hurst ◽

Iana Liadze ◽

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Keyword(s):

The World ◽

Economic Outlook

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Protection, economic war and structural change: the 1930s in Ireland

Irish Historical Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021121400010531 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 27 (107) ◽

pp. 250-266 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

J. Peter Neary ◽

Cormac Ó Gráda

Keyword(s):

Economic Activity ◽

Trade Agreements ◽

Industrial Sector ◽

Home Market ◽

Self Sufficiency ◽

Political Controversy ◽

Cumann Na Ngaedheal ◽

Political Turmoil ◽

The Impact ◽

Economic Outlook

If I were an Irishman, I should find much to attract me in the economic outlook of your present government towards greater self-sufficiency. (J.M. Keynes)The 1930s were years of political turmoil and economic crisis and change in Ireland. Economic activity had peaked in 1929, and the last years of the Cumann na nGaedheal government (in power since the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922) saw substantial drops in output, trade and employment. The policies pursued after Fianna Fáil’s victory in the election of February 1932 were therefore influenced both by immediate economic pressures and by the party’s ideological commitments. The highly protectionist measures associated with de Valera and Lemass — key men of the new régime — sought both to create jobs quickly and to build more gradually a large indigenous industrial sector, producing primarily for the home market.Political controversy complicated matters. De Valera was regarded as a headstrong fanatic by the British establishment. His government’s refusal to hand over to Britain the so-called ‘land annuities’ — a disputed item in the Anglo-Irish settlement of 1921 — led to an ‘economic war’, in which the British Treasury sought payment instead through penal ‘emergency’ tariffs on Irish imports. The Irish imposed their own duties, bounties and licensing restrictions in turn. The economic war hurt Irish agriculture badly; the prices of fat and store cattle dropped by almost half between 1932 and mid-1935. Farmers got some relief through export bounties and the coal-cattle pacts (quota exchanges of Irish cattle for British coal) of 1935-7, but Anglo-Irish relations were not normalised again until the finance and trade agreements of the spring of 1938, and the resolution of the annuities dispute did not mean an end to protection. The questions ‘Who won the economic war?’ and ‘What was the impact of protection on the Irish economy?’ are analytically distinct, but they are not that easy to keep apart in practice.

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Le grandi imprese nel sistema produttivo italiano

Economia e Politica Industriale ◽

10.3280/poli2009-001004 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 31-39

Author(s):

Riccardo Gallo

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Corporate Governance ◽

Economic Performance ◽

Labour Productivity ◽

Financial Structure ◽

Jel Classification ◽

The Other ◽

Manufacturing Companies ◽

Economic Outlook

- Based on the analysis of the R&S-Mediobanca survey on multinationals, in 2006 the 17 Italians were small, but not "midgets", as a result of domestic and mostly transnational M&As. In the last ten years, their economic performance and financial structure have been always very sound and in line with the other multinationals. Their labour productivity has been lower than the average, but has improved since 1997. Italian manufacturing multinationals, however, show lower ratios than those of the utilities sector. Given the dire economic outlook worldwide, the Author believes that multinationals, Government and Unions in Italy should provide social support, mostly at labour level, and implement measures aimed at increasing size and productivity, fostering globalisation, and improving corporate governance. Keywords: multinationals, size, ratios, manufacturing companies, utilities, crisis, outlook, social support, corporate governance Parole chiave: multinazionali, dimensione, indicatori, manifatturiere, servizi, crisi, previsioni, ammortizzatori sociali, corporate governance Jel Classification: L25

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