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Insight Report – Future of World Trade

Trade in goods and services accounts for nearly 60 percent of the world’s economic output, and the global average tariff has been cut in half since the 1990s to less than seven percent. A closer look, however, reveals that the hyperglobalisation of the last 70 years is in jeopardy.

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Lancashire ready to punch its weight again

Twenty years after standing down as the Leader of Lancashire County Council, DIB boss Frank McKenna reflects on the county’s place in the Northern Powerhouse – and why he believes Lancashire is ready to start to punch its weight again.

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