Showing posts with label economic growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economic growth. Show all posts
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
GDP Increase Not Recession Fears But Growth
GDP increased by 0.6% in the second quarter of 2013 compared with Q1 2013. The four major industrial groupings in the economy increased in Q1 2013 compared with Q2 2013. The largest upward contribution to the increase in GDP came from services with an increase of 0.6% adding 0.48% to the total GDP increase. Agriculture increased by 1.1%, production 0.6% and construction 0.9% (ONS).
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
GDP Growth 0.6%
The monthly estimates of GDP calculated by the NIESR suggest that GDP output grew by 0.6% in the three months to June following three months of output growth at 0.6% to May. These figures also suggest that there was economic growth of 0.6% per quarter in Q2 2013 from 0.3% during Q1 2013.
Agricultural output has remained stable at 98.1 since March though there has been growth quarter-on-quarter by month, construction has grown slightly month-on-month since March to 91.4, private services has also growth in the same way to 105.3 and public services continues to grow as it has done since December to 103.7.
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
OECD GDP Growth Slows But Stays Positive
Real GDP growth in the OECD countries slowed down to 0.2% in Q4 2011 compared to 0.6% growth in Q3. The major components were all included except for changes in inventories. There was slower growth in private consumption, investment and net exports but they remained positive. Government consumption was the main contributor to the slowdown decreasing growth by 0.1%.
The broad based slowdown in demand differed at national level reflecting amongst other things differences in rates of economic growth. GDP growth was strongest in the US at 0.7% largely due to private consumption. Private consumption was also the main driver in Canada which showed growth on 0.4%. France remained positive at 0.2%. Japan and Germany both reported negative growth of 0.2%. Other countries with negative GDP growth in Q4 2011 included Italy -0.7% and the UK with 0.3%
The broad based slowdown in demand differed at national level reflecting amongst other things differences in rates of economic growth. GDP growth was strongest in the US at 0.7% largely due to private consumption. Private consumption was also the main driver in Canada which showed growth on 0.4%. France remained positive at 0.2%. Japan and Germany both reported negative growth of 0.2%. Other countries with negative GDP growth in Q4 2011 included Italy -0.7% and the UK with 0.3%
Saturday, 2 July 2011
Natural Resources And Environmental Accounts
The ONS recently published the UK's environmental accounts for 2011 and they are described as satellite accounts to the main national accounts. They provide information on a wide range of things to do with atmospheric emissions, natural resources such as lands cover, oil and gas reserves, forestry, trade in basic materials, physical flows and monetary accounts related to the industrial, commercial and domestic sectors.
The effects of our activity on the environment have been an important policy issue for the last 40-50 years. There is growing concern about the impact of economic activity on both the global and local environment and also recognition that economic growth and human welfare depend on the enviroment. Raw materials and energy for goods and services, the absorption of waste, basic life support roles and amenities such as landscape are all services provided by the environment.
Environmental accounts provide data on the impact of economic activity on the environment, resource use and the taxes and subsidies associted with them and are sepearated into three dimensions: natural resources, physical flows and monetary. Natural resources accounts include oil and gas reserves, land cover and forestry.
Proven oil reserves at the end of 2009 were 378m tonnes. There has been a transfer of 38m tonnes from probable to proven reserves. Maximum oil reserves (proven, probable and possible) decreased by 19m tonnes to 1,111m tonnes in 2009. There are estimated to be hundreds of millions of tonnes of undiscovered recoverable oil reserves. Oil and gas reserves were worth an estimated value of £182.4bn in 2009, down 1.9% since 2008.
Total land cover in Great Britain is 22.6m hectares. Various types of grassland are the habitats that have increased between 1998 and 2007. Changes have also taken place in woodlands which have increased, arable and horticulture, which have decreased and bracken broad habitat which has also decreased.
The total area covered by woodland was 3.1m hectares or 12.7% of UK land area and is the highest since records began. The woodland area at the end of 2010 is 2.5 times tha area covered in 1924 (when records began). The area of new planting and restocking in 2010-11 was 22,700 hectares. Broadleaved species important for the expansion of the area of native woodland was 82% of new planting but only 27% of restocking.
There was an 8.4% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions in 2009 compared with 2008 bringing the total down by 58.1m tonnes to 636m tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
Material productivity is used to assess progress towards sustainable development by dividing GDP by Domestic Material Consumption (DMC). The environmental accounts show that between 1990 and 2009 material productivity increrased and the trend indicates that material use is falling in relation to economic activity and supports evidence that suggests that economic growth has decoupled from material use since 1990. Some of the environmental impacts associated with consumption may have been transferred abroad because the level of imports has generally risen over that period.
The effects of our activity on the environment have been an important policy issue for the last 40-50 years. There is growing concern about the impact of economic activity on both the global and local environment and also recognition that economic growth and human welfare depend on the enviroment. Raw materials and energy for goods and services, the absorption of waste, basic life support roles and amenities such as landscape are all services provided by the environment.
Environmental accounts provide data on the impact of economic activity on the environment, resource use and the taxes and subsidies associted with them and are sepearated into three dimensions: natural resources, physical flows and monetary. Natural resources accounts include oil and gas reserves, land cover and forestry.
Proven oil reserves at the end of 2009 were 378m tonnes. There has been a transfer of 38m tonnes from probable to proven reserves. Maximum oil reserves (proven, probable and possible) decreased by 19m tonnes to 1,111m tonnes in 2009. There are estimated to be hundreds of millions of tonnes of undiscovered recoverable oil reserves. Oil and gas reserves were worth an estimated value of £182.4bn in 2009, down 1.9% since 2008.
Total land cover in Great Britain is 22.6m hectares. Various types of grassland are the habitats that have increased between 1998 and 2007. Changes have also taken place in woodlands which have increased, arable and horticulture, which have decreased and bracken broad habitat which has also decreased.
The total area covered by woodland was 3.1m hectares or 12.7% of UK land area and is the highest since records began. The woodland area at the end of 2010 is 2.5 times tha area covered in 1924 (when records began). The area of new planting and restocking in 2010-11 was 22,700 hectares. Broadleaved species important for the expansion of the area of native woodland was 82% of new planting but only 27% of restocking.
There was an 8.4% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions in 2009 compared with 2008 bringing the total down by 58.1m tonnes to 636m tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
Material productivity is used to assess progress towards sustainable development by dividing GDP by Domestic Material Consumption (DMC). The environmental accounts show that between 1990 and 2009 material productivity increrased and the trend indicates that material use is falling in relation to economic activity and supports evidence that suggests that economic growth has decoupled from material use since 1990. Some of the environmental impacts associated with consumption may have been transferred abroad because the level of imports has generally risen over that period.
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