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Section I. Recent developments and summary of the forecast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Garry Young
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The current state of the UK economy is arguably as good as it has been for thirty years. Unemployment and inflation are each at their lowest levels for several years. A ‘misery’ index, derived simply by adding the unemployment and inflation rates is at its lowest point since the late 1960s.

Type
The UK economy
Information
National Institute Economic Review , Volume 170 , October 1999 , pp. 8 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Footnotes

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The forecast was compiled using the latest version of the National Institute Domestic Econometric Model. I am grateful to Ray Barrell, Richard Kneller, Nigel Pain, Rebecca Riley and Martin Weale for comment and discussion.