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West Lothian Economic Partnership hosts an annual Economic Conference to look at the prospects for the Economy in West Lothian. This year's conference took place on Tuesday 22 April at West Lothian College in Livingston. Keynote speaker Jim Mather
MSP, Minister for Enterprise, Energy & Tourism outlined the Government's Economic Strategy, launched last November. Jim McColl, OBE, CEO of Clyde Blowers, who rank among the world's most successful and innovative companies, provided the business perspective. Our third speaker, Professor Donald MacRae, Strategy & Finance Director at Lloyds TSB Scotland looked at the current state of the Economy and examined the underlying trends which explain why Scotland has underperformed in the last 30 years. You can download Professor MacRae's presentation from the conference here. (You may need to save it to your computer and then right click on the file and select open with Powerpoint). To read the Government Economic Strategy follow this link.
To give your feedback on the conference please follow this link.
To view photographs from the event follow this link. You can download the West Lothian Economic Review 2008 here.
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