Evaluate the Uk’s Economic Performance in Recent Decades from Both an Historical and International Perspective.

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Evaluate the UK’s economic performance in recent decades from both an historical and international perspective. There are several measures that are taken into consideration when determining how well a country has performed economically. These vary from quantitative measures such as inflation, unemployment and growth to other economic indicators such as standard of health & education and quality of life. These statistics and facts are used to compare and contrast with historical data as well as on an international level so a country is aware of improvements that need to be made. Economic growth is the increase in the amount of the goods and services produced by an economy over time. It is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real GDP. As economic growth is measured as the annual percent change of gross domestic product (GDP), it has all the advantages and drawbacks of that measure. The graph shows that the UK has had, on average, a consistent level of growth in the past three decades. There have been times of ‘boom and bust,’ experienced by everyone on the globe although the UK has managed to perform at a steady average of around 2%, managing times of recession reasonably well. Internationally, the UK has one of the highest GDP per capita. The graph to the left corroborates with this and explains why the UK is involved in the G7 and G8 summits – being one of the most powerful countries in the world. Unemployment, as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively sought work within the past four weeks. The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force. The diagram on the left shows the UK’s unemployment rate in the past

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