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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Martin Wolf (Part 2)

2025/2/14
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Martin Wolf: 我认为英国正面临结构性衰退，解决问题的措施需要时间和政治意愿。其中，最关键的是解决基础设施建设的障碍，英国的规划系统僵化，导致难以在合适的地方建造房屋和工厂。与中国相比，英国在基础设施建设方面落后很多。此外，英国的储蓄率是发达国家中最低的，这也阻碍了经济增长。虽然原因复杂，但提高储蓄率对于经济发展至关重要。总之，解决建设障碍和提高储蓄率是英国经济增长的关键。

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This chapter explores the UK's economic stagnation, focusing on infrastructure development as a potential solution. The discussion touches upon the challenges in building infrastructure, low savings rates, and the country's reliance on foreign investment.
  • Structural slump in the UK economy
  • Ossification of the planning system hinders building projects
  • UK has the lowest savings rate among developed nations
  • Heavy reliance on foreign savings for investment

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2025 is set to be a seismic year for the global economy. Donald Trump will return to the White House with an ‘America First’ agenda that threatens to dismantle global trade. Wars in Ukraine and Gaza could continue to escalate and cause turmoil in diplomacy. And the race to develop AI will accelerate as China and the US battle it out for technological supremacy.

Who better to make sense of these unsettling and fast-changing times than Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times? Widely regarded as one of the world’s most influential writers on the global economy and a multi-award-winning financial journalist, Wolf has been chronicling and analysing geopolitical and economic upheaval for nearly 40 years. He has written five bestselling books. His latest, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, maps out the implications of globalisation, technological development and the impact of democratic decline on the global economy.

Wolf joined us onstage for the this installment of the Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook as he discussed what we can expect from 2025 and beyond in conversation with BBC News presenter and Royal Correspondent Jonny Dymond.

This recording is part of The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook series of events made in partnership with Guinness Global Investors, an independent British fund manager that helps both individuals and institutions harness the future drivers of growth to achieve their investment goals.

To find out more visit: https://www.guinnessgi.com/

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