The optimists, often led by Alan Greenspan at the US Federal Reserve, used to claim the new economy involved significant productivity gains. Did the last decade of the twentieth century see a technological revolution that brought a step change in...
If one of the world's three biggest economies stutters and even fails, everyone faces difficulties. Japan's problems are deep-seated, cultural and moral as well as political and economic. International co-operation becomes not merely a nice idea...
Markets, economies, technologies and people seem to be at a turning point. Without Bill Clinton's grinning presence world political leadership is quiet. Only 10 years - how long has the motor car or the jet engine been in existence, and yet we...
Not the political controversy, but whether India can produce enough talent to fill the huge demand for workers the trend has fuelled. While the outsourcing backlash may take a while to fizzle out, Pande remains bullish about the prospects for...
Cities with levels of productivity above the average - and growing knowledge economies in both public and private sectors - include Bristol, Leeds and Manchester, as well as Derby, Ipswich and Northampton.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist put it well in a floor speech in March when he said: "European economies are buried by public-sector debt; European economies are drained of their vitality by excessive taxation; and European economies are...