Over 60,000 people now work in the creative and digital industries in Greater Manchester, according to Amion, which forecasts that number will grow 27% by 2034.
As education budgets shrivel, it may spread.Crude calculationsThe International Energy Agency produced a report on Iraq's energy future, which forecast that the country could produce 8.3m barrels of oil a day by 2035, up from the current 3m.
Most bullish is Moody's Analytics, which forecast that the package would add 1.9 million jobs, cutting the unemployment rate by a point, and increase growth by two percentage points.
But East Asian economies invested much more in education and infrastructure than India does today.A recent study from Goldman Sachs, which forecast that India could sustain 8% growth until 2020, was widely trumpeted in Indian newspapers.
Other firms and commentators that have announced their predictions for 2015 include property company Savills, which forecast that the UK market would see a 2% rise in house prices in 2015.
Joshua Raymond, market strategist at City Index, said: The [market] turnaround was driven mainly through an upbeat statement from US bank State Street, which forecast that its second quarter earnings would beat market expectations.
(Last week's report from the Congressional Budget Office, which forecast that, in the course of the next decade, the measure would increase the number of uninsured Americans by twenty-four million, has further eroded Republican support).
China's foreign-currency debt rating outlook was raised to positive by Fitch Ratings, which forecast that the nation's reserves of overseas currencies would exceed $400 billion this year, second only to Japan.
That notion was boosted this week by the IMF, which forecast that India's pace of growth will outstrip China's in 2016 (China remains much the larger economy).Mr Chaudhuri points also to Mr Modi's personal rapport with other Asian leaders, notably Shinzo Abe and Tony Abbott, respectively prime ministers of Japan and Australia.
