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PROSPECTS FOR THE UK ECONOMY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2020

Cyrille Lenoël
Affiliation:
NIESR. E-mail: c.lenoel@niesr.ac.uk.
Rory Macqueen
Affiliation:
NIESR. E-mail: c.lenoel@niesr.ac.uk.
Garry Young
Affiliation:
NIESR. E-mail: c.lenoel@niesr.ac.uk.
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Abstract

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Type
Forecast Summaries
Copyright
© National Institute of Economic and Social Research, 2020

Footnotes

We are grateful to Jagjit Chadha for helpful comments and suggestions, and to Patricia Sanchez Juanino for compiling the database. Unless otherwise stated, the source of all data reported in the figures and tables is the NiGEM database and forecast baseline. The UK forecast analysis was completed on 17 July 2020, more recent data are incorporated in the text.

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