RECENT ECONOMIC TRENDS

DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9485.1954.tb00926.x
Published date01 June 1954
Date01 June 1954
RECENT ECONOMIC TRENDS
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Scottish Industrial Production
The output
of
Scottish industry reached
a
record level in 1953.
the index
of
industrial production being 18 per cent. higher than in
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Building and Contracting
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Scotland
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0
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0
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England
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Scotland
&Wales
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t
1940 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
FIG.
1.
Industrial production in Scotland and England and Wales. 1948-53.
1948=100. Building and contracting figure for 1953 based
on
January-Septem ber only.
1948. Figure
1
shows that since 1948 the rise
in
industrial production
in Scotland has been very much the same
as
in the United Kingdom
as
a whole; the balance
of
advantage
is
slightly unfavourable to Scot-
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