Two sets of figures released recently indicate that the US economy is continuing to recover from the recession.

A solid 3.2 percent annualized growth rate for GDP in Q4, up from 2.6 percent in Q3, rounded off the US economy's best year for five years in 2010, expanding 2.9 percent over the year as a whole.

Employment in the UK’s wind power industry has surged 91 per cent in just three years, according to a report commissioned by trade body RenewableUK.

Figures in today’s report show a 91 per cent increase in full-time employment in the sector between 2007/8 and 2009/10.

The study was jointly commissioned by RenewableUK and Energy & Utility Skills—the Sector Skills Council for the power sector—from Warwick University’s Institute for Employment Research (IER) and Cambridge Econometrics.

Nick Jones, managing director of Nexus Collections, discusses the importance of fair trade and suggests what you should look for in a fair trade supplier.

Lessons from the front line: ensuring the maximum return on ERP investment decisions. By Mike Stanbridge, Infor.

The business world is unpredictable and ultimately imperfect. Managers are accustomed to making decisions with incomplete information and investing in strategic change without being able to fully test their assumptions of what that change will bring.  

By controlling the use of IT resources through strong information management and clear user guidelines, organisations can attain a far more robust, less expensive and more sustainable IT infrastructure, insists Richard Barker, CEO, Sovereign Business Integration.

Stephen Archer, business analyst and director of Spring Partnerships, outlines his economic and business predictions for 2011.

Hans Paulsen, managing director of Zamtel, Zambia’s only total communications solutions provider, talks to Jayne Alverca about the restructuring programme that is creating the foundation for a brighter future.

Polaris International Industrial Parks looks set to become an historic project that will cement economic relations between Turkey and Egypt. Osman Arikan, general manager, and Elif Gurpinar, corporate communications director, talk to Jayne Alverca.

Iceland has little in the way of natural resources with the exception of clean energy, which it is putting to good use to boost the economy, as Alan Swaby discovers.

In a fascinating insight into the flow of discarded garments from the West into the free ports of western India, and their subsequent return in different guises to Europe and the US, executive director Nohar Nath explains to John O’Hanlon how Kishco Group manages the complex net of supply, processing and demand.