Chapter II. the World Overseas

1966 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 23-35
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Rates Of Growth

There was some slowing down of the growth of industrial production as a whole during the summer months though the overall tendency continues firmly upwards (table 13).France, Italy and Japan are still expanding rapidly, though in the case of France not so rapidly as in the past. In most other countries, apart perhaps from Norway, rates of growth are declining. The United Kingdom is the most prominent of this group, but the slowdown in Germany is becoming quite marked.

Chapter V. The World Overseas

1967 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 53-80
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
North America ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
The Other ◽  
Price Inflation ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

Growth in industrial countries as a whole again amounted to nearly 5 per cent in 1966 (table 47) but the rate slowed down during the summer after moving ahead quite sharply in the first half of the year (table 34).Industrial production was more or less static in North America after August, and in Europe production has actually fallen slightly, reflecting the declines in Germany and the United Kingdom as well as in some of the smaller countries. The relatively favourable overall result in 1966 arose largely from the diversity of phasing as between different countries. France, Italy and Japan had found it necessary some two years ago to adopt the type of anti-inflationary restrictive policies now being applied in most other industrial countries. They therefore now have reserves of unused labour and capacity which enable them to expand without the inhibitions about wage and price inflation which are afflicting the other main industrial countries.

Chapter III. The World Economy

1976 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 33-63
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Accounts ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

The fall in output in the industrial countries in 1975 was substantially greater than we and most other observers foresaw a year ago.After big revisions of the national accounts for the United States, the fall in aggregate output in the member countries of OECD now works out a good deal smaller on our estimates than it did in November. But the final figure still seems likely to be close to 1¾ per cent, compared with our February forecast of ½ per cent. For industrial production we were much wider of the mark, the actual decline being 8–9 per cent as against the 2 per cent that we predicted. Geographically our error was heavily concentrated among the major European countries including the United Kingdom—on the latest figures we actually under-predicted United States output by a substantial amount—and it appears to have sprung from two main sources.

The British Library's International Engagement Strategy

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Stephens
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
British Library ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Activity ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
International Engagement ◽  
Corporate Level

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the greatest libraries in the world. It is also most emphatically a library for the world. Its collections can be said to contain both ‘the memory of the nation’ and also ‘the DNA of civilization’. Indeed the Library uses the positioning statement: ‘Advancing the world's knowledge’. The Library engages in international activity in a wide variety of ways and at all levels through the organization. However, prior to 2007 the Library had not had a systematic corporate-level focus for its international engagement activity. This paper addresses the British Library's International Engagement Strategy and sets out the contextual background that led to its development and adoption in 2007. It goes on to describe, by using a number of case studies, the range of international activity taken forward by the Library under this strategy in the past two years. These include the Library's support for the reconstruction of the Iraq National Library and Archive and its contribution to the World Collections Programme initiative.

Chapter II. The World Economy

1967 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 14-25
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fourth Quarter ◽  
West Germany ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

The growth of world industrial production slowed down in the fourth quarter of last year and in spite of relatively mild weather in Western Europe there must have been an actual fall in the first quarter of 1967. The change of trend has been most marked in West Germany, but also has affected a number of other countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.

The World Overseas

1965 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 19-29
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Rate Of Growth ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

Between the end of 1964 and the middle of 1965 there was some increase in the rate of growth of world industrial production, entirely due to the rapid expansion in the United States and Canada. The rate of growth in Europe apparently fell slightly partly owing to the relative stagnation in the United Kingdom, but also because of some slowing down in West Germany and the Netherlands and slight falls in Belgium and France which were not, taken together, fully offset by the upswing in Italy. Japanese production has remained virtually unchanged for a year (table 10).

International Civil Aviation Organization

1962 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-224 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
International Civil Aviation Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Article 50

The first extraordinary session of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly was convened at headquarters in Montreal from June 19 to 21, 1961, at the request of twelve of the contracting states, to consider increasing the size of the ICAO Council. The delegate of the United Kingdom proposed a change in article 50(a) of the ICAO convention to provide for 27 members of the ICAO Council instead of 21, and delegates of Venezuela, Cameroun, and South Africa immediately supported the increase. Among arguments advanced for expanding the Council were the following: 1) a Council of 21 no longer adequately represented the membership of the organization, which had reached 86; 2) adequate geographic representation was of paramount importance since international routes covered most of the world; 3) the increase would facilitate the participation in the Council's work of the more than twenty states that had achieved independence in the past few years; 4) the practice of holding an Assembly session only every three years placed greater responsibilities on the Council; and 5) all the specialized agencies except ICAO and the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization had increased the size of their executive bodies. Although there was some debate as to whether the increase ought to be to 25 or 27 members, the United Kingdom motion for the latter number prevailed, along with a proposal sponsored by the Italian and Venezuelan delegations stating that it was highly desirable for the amendment to the convention to come into force before the next Assembly session. Consequently, all contracting states to the convention were urged to ratify the amendment as soon as possible.

scholarly journals Religion in the Age of Development

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 382 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Feener ◽  
Philip Fountain
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Past Half

Religion has been profoundly reconfigured in the age of development. Over the past half century, we can trace broad transformations in the understandings and experiences of religion across traditions in communities in many parts of the world. In this paper, we delineate some of the specific ways in which ‘religion’ and ‘development’ interact and mutually inform each other with reference to case studies from Buddhist Thailand and Muslim Indonesia. These non-Christian cases from traditions outside contexts of major western nations provide windows on a complex, global history that considerably complicates what have come to be established narratives privileging the agency of major institutional players in the United States and the United Kingdom. In this way we seek to move discussions toward more conceptual and comparative reflections that can facilitate better understandings of the implications of contemporary entanglements of religion and development.

Chapter IV. The World Overseas

1966 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 50-84
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
North America ◽  
Gross National Product ◽  
European Countries ◽  
National Product ◽  
World Production ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

The year 1965 was on the whole again a good year for world production, with the real gross national product in industrial countries rising by just over 4½ per cent (table 54 below). The overall rate of expansion was slightly lower than in 1964, because although growth in North America was faster than in 1964, it was balanced by the slowing down in Japan and most European countries, notably the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

Nostalgia as an Emotional Weapon

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Edoardo Campanella ◽  
Marta Dassù
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Political Outcomes ◽  
The World ◽  
Ordinary Citizens ◽  
The Way

Nostalgia is a multifaceted concept that leads to contrasting political outcomes. Reflective nostalgia is the benign form of the malaise. It looks at the past through critical eyes and recognizes that something might have been lost, but that much has been gained along the way. Restorative nostalgia, which proposes to rebuild the lost home, is the malignant form. The problem is that the world is now primarily dealing with a toxic restorative nostalgia used for political ends. Ordinary citizens struggle to adapt to the disruptions imposed on them by global forces that are out of their control, inducing them to find comfort in historical eras when life was easier, slower, and less colored by uncertainty. When thrown into political debates, nostalgia becomes an emotional weapon that can be used either defensively or offensively. To those who reject a cosmopolitan world and yearn for the socio-economic opportunities that were enjoyed by older generations, nationalism promises a source of identity and security. Equally, for those who aspire to restore the national glory of the past, nationalism provides a means to gain influence – to the detriment of other nations. This chapter shows why it is possible to talk about nostalgic nationalism only in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals Introduction: The Global Riot

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-110
Author(s):  
Maura Brighenti ◽  
Lucía Cavallero ◽  
Niccolò Cuppini ◽  
Alejo Stark
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
New Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
The World

AbstractThe past few years have seen a number of “riots” – in Mexico City, Hong Kong, Chile, Ecuador, the United States, Argentina, France, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. What do they have in common with one another and with other popular upheavals in history? How do they differ? What do they represent as sites of protest, resistance and rebellion? This forum explores the meaning of such riots through the meaning of the term itself, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the Global South, in theory and in the words and actions of rioters and the authorities who act to suppress them. If it is true the world has entered a “new age of riots,” citizens and scholars must begin to reach some conceptual clarity of what a global riot is, and seeks to become.

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