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30 Oct 20
“Essential” support for companies and workers in the UK must continue if the economy is to recover from Covid-19 and meet the challenges of leaving the EU customs union and single market, the IMF has...
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18 Jun 19
A ‘no-deal’ Brexit poses the main risk to Ireland’s economy, which is “uniquely vulnerable” to events in the United Kingdom, the IMF has warned.
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22 Jan 19
A no-deal Brexit could knock as much as eight percentage points off Britain’s GDP growth, the IMF’s chief economist has warned.
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11 Oct 18
The UK’s public finances are among the weakest in the world after the 2008 financial crash, behind Gambia, Uganda and Kenya, an IMF assessment of assets and liabilities has revealed.
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17 Sep 18
A no-deal Brexit will entail “dire consequences” for the UK economy, which would rapidly start to contract, the International Monetary Fund chief has warned.
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18 Apr 18
Growth in the UK is expected slow as a result of Brexit, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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23 Jan 18
The growth of the UK economy in the next two years is expected to trail behind the global average, according to economic forecasters from the International Monetary Fund.
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24 Jul 17
The United Kingdom has seen its growth forecast downgraded by the International Monetary Fund in the latest World Economic Outlook Update.
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18 Nov 16
The UK government has scored highly on an international fiscal transparency measure published by the International Monetary Fund, in which it was advised to consider scrapping the Autumn Statement.
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27 Jun 16
The International Monetary Fund has called for the UK’s decision to leave the European Union to be respected and for the exit process to be conducted smoothly.
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20 Jun 16
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde has reiterated her call for Britain to vote to remain in the European Union in this week’s referendum, saying there is “a clear case” for how the UK has...
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13 May 16
The consequences of Brexit would be “pretty bad, to very, very bad”, according to International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde.
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15 Apr 16
The five largest European economies have agreed on new “hammer blow” measures to crackdown on tax evasion in response to the Panama Papers.
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12 Apr 16
A UK exit from the European Union could do “severe regional and global damage”, the International Monetary Fund has warned in its latest review of global trends.
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21 Jan 16
The International Monetary Fund has opened the nomination process for its next managing director.
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11 Dec 15
The International Monetary Fund has backed Chancellor George Osborne’s economic strategy this morning, but warned that the level of government borrowing remains one of the main risks to the UK’s...
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9 Oct 15
Plans by the UK government to spend more money on transport and other infrastructure have been praised by the head of the International Monetary Fund.
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3 Jun 15
Countries like the UK should not cut public spending to bring down sovereign debt as the impact on the economy could outweigh the benefits, an International Monetary Fund research paper has concluded...
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17 Apr 15
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde backed the coalition government’s economic strategy, saying levels of growth showed the plan had ‘worked’.