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Postgraduate degrees at Kent Business School look to address the challenges of modern global business. Whether you choose to study on the Kent MBA or one of our specialist Master’s - Finance, Management Science, Business Analytics, Human Resource Management, Logistics and Value Chain Management - we constantly strive to meet industry’s demand for quality graduates by ensuring that we unlock our students’ potential, expand their thinking, and nurture their talent. We are driven to optimise our students’ experience and employability with programmes that provide academic rigor and real world relevance.
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Expert comment: Is the UK returning to growth?
Dr Filippaios is an expert in international business and contributes to Kent Business School’s postgraduate programmes and executive teaching.
“The United Kingdom is currently experiencing one of the worst recessions in its economic history. The current recession has a lot of differences with what has been experienced in the past; inflation is at a relatively low level and Foreign Direct Investment still flows in the economy. On the other hand, it appears that both instruments (fiscal and monetary policy) that could lead the economy back to growth are currently ineffective. With a fiscal policy that has a focus on austerity, with significant reduction in public spending, a monetary policy with interest rates at a historical low and quantitative easing ineffective, mean that there is no obvious way out of the current situation.
This new economic reality calls for new economic approaches. Confidence, or lack of it to be precise, is the key word. The current crisis, above all, is a crisis of expectations. Uncertainty for the future means that businesses and consumers are waiting before making any major decisions. Businesses prefer to sit on their cash and not invest and consumers are unsure about their economic future and thus postpone consumption for a later date. Lack of confidence about the future economic prospects is one of the key factors that keep the economy from growing at the moment.
Is there a way out? The answer is positive but not simple. It requires a significant coordination of efforts and a more focused and targeted economic policy. Horizontal cuts and general austerity will not create the necessary economic environment and will not restore confidence. The current situation requires a strategic perspective on things with targeted spending on education, infrastructure and new technologies and an approach that is not influenced by electoral cycles. It also requires a social consensus that hard measures are required for the future to be brighter.”
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