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PROSPECTS FOR THE UK ECONOMY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2020

Hande Küçük ,
Cyrille Lenoël  and
Rory Macqueen
Rory Macqueen
Affiliation:
NIESR. E-mail: c.lenoel@niesr.ac.uk.
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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 254 , November 2020 , pp. F4 - F39
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© National Institute of Economic and Social Research, 2020

Footnotes

We are grateful to Jagjit Chadha and Barry Naisbitt 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 23 October 2020, more recent data are incorporated in the text.

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