Shaping the Future

Stephen Hill

Chapter 11 in Wales in the 21st Century, 2000, pp 131-138 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The interested reader, having worked through an eclectic combination of chapters of diverse style, approaches and opinions, could appropriately be considering the one question most feared by academics – so what? Recognising that knowledge and understanding are intrinsically important is one thing – wading through pages of detail mixed with polemic is quite another. This relatively short chapter will seek to identify threads from the previous chapters, and weave them together with a great deal of personal opinion in order to set out some possible solutions to the fundamental challenge that has dominated this book: how to engender the kind of shift in growth that will, in the medium term, place the typical citizen in Wales on a par in terms of living standards with their UK counterparts. That such an achievement has eluded Wales in the last century does not make this an unachievable task, but it does underline the seriousness of the challenge.

Keywords: Output Table; Creative Industry; Tradable Service; National Economic Development; Typical Citizen (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-98153-5_11

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780333981535

DOI: 10.1057/9780333981535_11

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().