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Hi, I'm Raoul Ruparel.

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I’m Director for the Centre for Growth at BCG in the UK.

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I joined BCG in 2022.

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A lot has changed in the UK economy

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since BCG opened its first office
in London in 1970.

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Back then, we were an ailing manufacturing
economy looking for a path forward.

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Now, we're a bit more of a services powerhouse

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but we are still looking at a number 
of similar challenges:

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high inflation, rising interest rates, 
low economic growth.

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So, there are lessons
we can learn from looking back

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at what BCG did with businesses then

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how the economy changed,
and some of the things we learnt.

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I think there's a lot that BCG and 
the Centre for Growth can do

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to help promote growth and 
economic development in the UK.

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You know, we work with businesses
on a day-to-day basis to try and improve

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their productivity, improve their output,
improve the atmosphere for workers.

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And so a lot of that can be translated
to the national level.

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We just have to work with policymakers and
businesses to start those conversations

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and take some of those granular learnings

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at the business level to the national level.