Publications A path back to growth
A path back to growth
For the next few years, the priority in the UK is achieving output growth and the declines in unemployment that would accompany it. But understanding the UK’s economic problems as a combination of short-term and longer-term risks makes it clear that a wider set of policies is needed.
After drawing out the two horns of the UK's economic dilemma – weak demand in the short term and the risk of reduced supply capacity and growth potential in the longer term – this paper outlines a range of interrelated policy changes, fiscal and industrial, to address these problems in the round.
It says that the roadmap for growth should have six crucial elements:
- an increase in the scale of quantitative easing
- fiscal measures to boost growth in the short term combined with a reaffirmation of the plan to eliminate the deficit in the medium term
- additional infrastructure spending
- measures to make household debt restructuring easier
- measures to keep the long-term unemployed in touch with the labour market
- an active industrial policy.
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Tony Dolphin, Senior Economist and Associate Director for Economic Policy
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Happy New Year! And here’s the coalition outlook for 2013: grim with no plan for growth
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin - 01 Jan 2013
First the good news on the economy
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin - 25 Oct 2012
We’re out of recession – but it’s too early to pop the champagne corks
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin - 25 Oct 2012
Government action needed to get the economy growing again
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin - 25 Jul 2012
Latest GDP numbers mean Britain’s economy has shrunk since general election
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