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At a glance …

The UK economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

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Abstract

  • • New public expenditure plans will keep interest rates and the exchange rate higher than previously expected.

  • • Public sector net borrowing will run at over 1 per cent of GDP in the next three fiscal years.

  • • The risk of joining EMU at an uncompetitive exchange rate has risen.

  • • The economy will stall in the second half of 1998.

  • • The slowdown will curb inflation which should fall to 2.1 per cent by the end of this year and meet the target of 2.5 per cent in 1999.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 165 , July 1998 , pp. 2
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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