stephen boyle

Liverpool ‘in good position to ride out economic storm’

Oct 12 2007

LIVERPOOL’S economic fortunes have been transformed in the past decade and the city is well placed to ride out the present global economic storm, according to a leading economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Speaking to an audience of business owners and professionals at the city’s Tate Gallery in an event organised by RBS, Stephen Boyle also predicted the UK would emerge largely unscathed from the problems in the global economy. He said: “Liverpool’s economy outperformed the North West and wider UK economies during the last 10 years in terms of Gross Value Added (GVA), a key economic indicator that provides a measure of whether levels of wealth and productivity are rising....