| Description | Includes: the development of the 'City Initiative'; report on industrial management and the institutional investor; new Confederation of British Industry (CBI) committee on company affairs, investigating the structure and practices of public companies; Institutional Shareholders' Committee; reports on Equity Capital for Industry Ltd 1976; loan guarantee scheme for small businesses; the financing of the manufacturing industry to 1980; proposed Industrial Affairs Committee of Court; the exchange rate and competitiveness, the impact of the high exchange rate strategy on UK manufacturing industry 1980; the Bank's involvement in a CBI scheme to promote the appointment on non-executive directors 1980; recession and intervention in bank and industry failures; financing of Japanese industry 1981; international energy review 1982-3; note on the trend in import penetration 1970-1980; paper on the profitability and finance of industrial and commercial companies 1982; international gas - world reserves and production; appraisal of the venture capital industry 1982; corporate profitability of industrial and commercial companies; review of end-year stock declines - whether there was a tendency for firms to run down stocks at the end of the year, depressing output; quantitative restrictions on trade; overtime, short-time working and redundancies during the recession; trade balances in manufactured goods in the United States of America (USA), Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom and Sweden. |