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Prospects for the UK economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Simon Kirby*
Affiliation:
NIESR and Centre for Macroeconomics
Oriol Carreras
Affiliation:
NIESR
Jack Meaning
Affiliation:
NIESR
Rebecca Piggott
Affiliation:
NIESR
James Warren
Affiliation:
NIESR

Abstract

The production of this forecast is supported by the Institute's Corporate Members: Bank of England, HM Treasury, Mizuho Research Institute Ltd, Office for National Statistics, Santander (UK) plc and by the members of the NiGEM users group.

Type
The UK Economy
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Footnotes

Thanks to Tianle Zhang for creating the fan charts. Unless otherwise stated, the source of all data reported in the figures and tables is the NiGEM database and forecast baseline. The UK forecast was completed on 28 July 2015.

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