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September 12, 2004
Salmond on the economy
Alex Salmond’s speech to Scotsoft is reported on the SNP website and the BBC.
He notes that “long-term growth in Scotland has been only 1.7% compared to the UK’s 2.3%” also “according to a recent report by the International Institute for Management Development, Scotland is ranked thirty sixth in the world competitiveness rankings. The UK is ranked twenty second.”
Salmond urges encouragement of hi-tech and new startup businesses in Scotland, which is fine as far as it goes.
Low productivity is also a major issue here, as in England, and I hope to return to this subject soon.
www.snp.org/html/news/printerfriendly.php?newsID=2415
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3646450.stm
Posted by Simon Holledge at September 12, 2004 02:56 PM