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According to a recent article published by the BBC on November 8th 2005, house prices in UK were higher by 3.5% for three months upto September as compared to last year. The average standing price was estimated at £194,589 which was 16.3% over last year (more…)

In order for anything to survive in this world today, money is important. If a country has revenue or assets and resources that are worth a great deal, it will be stable and secure. In addition to having revenue, assets, and resources, there is another important thing that a country needs: economic growth (more…)

One could say that a change in the exchange rates, i.e. changes in the value of the pound does have a direct effect on manufacturing. I.e. a rise in the value of the pound would lead to UK manufactured products or goods to be expensive and thereby curtail the demand for UK manufactured goods to other cheaper available sources. (more…)

Both total and per capita output has risen for many decades in most industrial countries. These long-term trends have produced rising average living standards. In the UK the real value of the average wage doubled in the twenty years between 1953 and 1973 (more…)

According to Ernst and Young (2002), the UK is the fourth largest economy in the world and a leading trading nation. Manufacturing is crucial to this position. They argue that the exchange rate is a barrier to profitable exporting (more…)

The logic behind congestion charge relates to the fact that roads are virtually the only public utility that is free at the point of use. Customers pay a higher tariff if they use their phones at peak times, the same goes for electricity. Railways, planes, buses and ferries manage demand by price and by how busy the services are. (more…)

Discrimination against women is apparently not the only reason for differentials in UK gender wage; there are particular ways of life and socio-geographic reasons that prevent women from earning the same wage as men do. (more…)

Membership of the EU has been the most contentious issue in British politics since 1973. Indeed no other foreign policy issue has caused so much divisions and bellicose debates in modern Britain. (more…)

There are various micro benefits of UK joining the EU and adopting the Euro. Firstly, gains from reduced transaction costs. It is clear that abolishing the costs of exchange from one currency to another eliminates inefficiencies and distortions in the single market. (more…)

The term ‘small firm’ is taken to encompass SME (small to medium sized enterprises) and so covers any firm from a self-employed individual to a company that still behaves more like a small than large corporation. (more…)