Determine the rate of economic growth in UK
With regard to economic growth, a good starting point for evaluation and analysis is the fact that rate of economic growth in UK has been very low while growth rates in many EMEs have been much higher. For UK and before onset of recession in 2008, trend rate of growth was estimated to be around 2.5% per year. Many forecasters have now downgraded this to below 2% per year. The downgrade reflects both cyclical factors (collapse of aggregate demand in UK associated with recession and possibility of Britain having entered a 'lost decade' of near zero growth) and structural factors one of that is de-industrialization. By contrast, among the BRICs China's trend growth rate is around 8-9% per year and India's rate is above 6% per year.