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...According to the great historian of economic growth, Angus Maddison, the annual rate of growth in the Western world from AD 1 to AD 1820 was a mere 0.06 percent per year, or 6 percent per century....
...Reform to the carbon trading scheme worth £250m. 13.06 Measures will be introduced to make it easier for UK based companies to bid for government contracts. 13.06 Support increased to SMEs to invest and...
...Among the gainers, Mitchells & Butlers firmed 7.1 per cent to 147¼p after the horse racing tycoons John Magnier and JP McManus raised their stake in the pubs group to about 15 per cent....
...“Suddenly investment is shooting up to billions of dollars whereas in 2005-06 it was A$264m.”...
...However, David Owen, strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort, calculated there was a 50-50 chance that the UK would slip into recession in 2008....
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