GUERNSEY needs to take a sustainable approach to economic success which is well-founded in the established local infrastructure.

GUERNSEY should be looking to build its economy in areas where it could demonstrate ‘significant expertise’, according to the chief executive of Guernsey Finance.

CONCERNS over whether the UK and Guernsey will experience a double-dip recession are relatively insignificant to the man in the street, according to a UK economist.

ONE of the advantages of recruiting an eminent economist to validate the success or otherwise of the island’s fiscal framework – the code which sets constraints on any borrowing and total levels of revenue and expenditure – is the degree of independence brought to the process.

CONTAGION is the buzzword of the world’s newspapers at present – and it has nothing to do with the latest Matt Damon film about a deadly pandemic.

PROJECTIONS for economic growth in the island next year have been downgraded in the light of the eurozone crisis.

EUROPE should be bracing itself for a recession of 1930s proportions or at least a decade of sluggish or no economic growth.

A WARNING by the chief minister this week that Guernsey risks becoming a high-tax jurisdiction if it cannot curb its public sector expenditure is a reminder of why this newspaper has taken such a strong line over the years on States spending.

THE Policy Council has failed to produce a long-term funding plan for overseas aid – as it had been instructed to.

THE pressure that faces UK Chancellor George Osborne to come up with a Plan B approach to the UK economy provides a counterpoint to the situation this island finds itself in.