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UK: 2011 Budget for Growth?

The 2011 budget, dubbed (with a distinct lack of originality) the “Budget for Growth,” is the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition’s first full budget since it came to power in May 2010. We didn’t expect any significant alterations to the huge fiscal consolidation plan laid out in the June 2010 emergency budget and the latest document tallies with that.

With fiscal consolidation to proceed as planned, our views about the level of fiscal austerity being too much too soon still stand. With many of the measures announced last June only kicking in from April 2011, we are about to[...]

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