Author : EconomyWatch

Remember that period of unbroken UK GDP and economic growth from 1992 to 2007? In 2008 it started to feel like a distant dream.In January 2008 the books of...

While the United Kingdom has a very well-developed banking system with finance and related businesses making up a major part of the economy, there are relatively few banks in...

Bank of England (BoE)The Bank of England or BoE is one of the oldest central banks in the world. It was established in 1694 under the Bank of England,...

India was a British colony for over 200 years till it achieved independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947. India and UK's trade relations have undergone a...

Could the UK economy get any worse? Data from Q1 2009 on the UK economy have delivered an unequivocal ‘yes’.The economy was declining at an even quicker rate than...

Forecasting the UK economy in 2010 in the midst of such economic uncertainty and financial upheaval is, to put it mildly, a challenge.Growth estimates have been coming down quicker...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was once the largest economy in the world. It was the birthplace of modern democracy, the Industrial Revolution, and many of...

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest nations in the world. The African country suffers from scarcity of natural resources, fragile soil and a large population. Agriculture forms the...

Gambia is a lower income country comes under the Sub-Saharan African region as to the classification made by the World Bank on the basis of income and region for...

STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY Agriculture accounts for a comparatively larger share in the country's GDP. As to the statistics, services accounted for 53.9 percent of GDP in 2005 followed...