Hints and tips:
...For this year and next, this is probably just as well, given the need to pull away convincingly from the experience of 2008-09....
...I suspect that was much behind the poor productivity performance in 2008-09....
...Paul Mortimer-Lee, BNP Paribas Globally, on average we are moving from recovery to expansion. But few countries are average....
...Paul Mortimer-Lee, BNP Paribas There have been few winners. The big losers are the banks and their shareholders and the taxpayers and their governments....
...Paul Mortimer-Lee, BNP Paribas Britain’s better than competitors’ performance in the first half of the last decade was pretty solid. For the last five years it has been anything but that....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: Recent figures suggest a significant deterioration and it is difficult to see the economy or financial markets coming to the rescue in the new year....
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