Britain Edges India: Don't Mistake Size for Speed
Britain sits just ahead of India in the latest World Bank dollar GDP figures. What does that measure—and what should governments deliver next?
Britain sits just ahead of India in the latest World Bank dollar GDP figures. What does that measure—and what should governments deliver next?
Britain remained globally visible after Brexit, but the KOF data suggests it became less economically connected as trade integration weakened and new barriers emerged with its largest market.
Britain gained the freedom to set its own fiscal course after Brexit, but a decade later higher debt, larger deficits and weaker fiscal health leave it trailing much of Europe.
Britain’s problem on leadership is that the post-Brexit model failed to deliver a lower-pressure economic path.
Britain’s trade problem is not that it stopped trading. It is that it became a thinner, less efficient trading system while competitors kept compounding.
Zero tariffs sounded like freedom but....
Britain is getting much less bang for its buck
Britain's productivity is sinking further behind the US - and the EU
World Bank figures show Britain treads water while Europe builds the stronger $ cushion
A decade after Brexit, Britain is poorer, trade is harder, and the promises of prosperity have failed to materialize.