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Benefit cuts – share your story | Natalie Hanman
Opinion is divided on planned cuts to welfare, but not everyone affected has a voice. We'd like to hear about your experiencesThis is going to be a year of huge benefit cuts affecting millions of...
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Why Labour should put the Robin Hood tax centre stage | Peter Hain
The government's refusal to sign up to a tax that would be lucrative and popular looks like an open goal for LabourGreat government policy rarely enjoys an easy ride. Challenging the status quo will...
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Does UK public finances data really show the economy is 'healing'? | Heather...
December's deficit was £0.6bn higher than a year earlier and the OBR's full-year forecasts may already be £3bn too optimisticAlmost before Tuesday's public finance data had been published, the Treasury...
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JP Morgan CEO condemns 'five years of scapegoating' of banks
Jamie Dimon uses Davos to criticise regulatory response to crisis and strongly defend role of financial sector since 2008Jamie Dimon, chief executive of the Wall Street bank JP Morgan, has made a...
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Private health contractor's staff told to cut 999 calls to meet targets
Leaked email from Serco managers tells workers to manipulate computer system to 'stop the clock' on emergency callsCall handlers staffing an out-of-hours GP service run by the private contractor Serco...
View ArticleDavos 2013: day one - as it happened
News and analysis as the World Economic Forum got under way in the Swiss town of DavosGraeme WeardenRupert NeateSimon Neville
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IMF advises UK to ease austerity measures
Chief economist says George Osborne should use March budget to reassess fiscal policy and help struggling economyBritain should tone down its austerity plans to help the struggling economy, the...
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Austerity plan is failing, IMF tells Osborne
IMF's Olivier Blanchard suggests UK needs reassessment of fiscal policy including changes to tax and public spendingThe message to George Osborne from the International Monetary Fund could scarcely...
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The IMF is calling for a plan B, but will George Osborne listen?
The fund's intervention on the eve of fourth quarter growth figures is no surprise after two years of flatliningThe message to George Osborne from the International Monetary Fund could scarcely have...
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Forget Europe – the markets hold the real unaccountable power | Mark Serwotka
An unholy matrimony between finance and politics has undermined democracy: it's time it was reinforcedListening to economics being discussed in the media is like being read a fairy story. In any fairy...
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George Osborne ignores IMF's warnings on austerity plans
Chancellor advised to moderate austerity programme as Nick Clegg concedes that capital spending was cut too quicklyGeorge Osborne insists he will press ahead with the government's austerity plans...
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UK GDP figures: panel verdict
The latest GDP figures show the UK economy shrank by 0.3% at the end of last year. Our panellists discuss what this meansEd Balls: Cameron and Osborne are asleep at the wheelToday is the moment when...
View ArticleRecessions compared: how does Britain's GDP compare to every recession since...
Exactly how bad is Britain's recovery from recession - and how much worse is it than the Great Depression of 1930?Simon Rogers
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UK GDP since 1955
Gross domestic product is the economic output of Britain. See how it has changed over time• Get the data• Interactive chart: How does this recession compare?• Chart: GDP change since 2008Britian is...
View ArticleWill the UK's latest GDP figures affect economic policy? - video
Economics correspondent Phillip Inman discusses the figures and the pressure now on chancellor George Osborne to consider a 'plan B' to stimulate growthPhillip Inman
View ArticleGeorge Osborne on GDP figures: ‘Britain faces a difficult situation’ - video
George Osborne responds to the the news that the British economy shrank by 0.3% in the last three months of 2012
View ArticleUK GDP shrank by 0.3%, says Office for National Statistics - video
Office for National Statistics chief economist Joe Grice reveals that Britain's GDP shrank by 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2012
View ArticleSustainable economic development: governance matters most - video
Referencing the BCG Sustainable Economic Development Assessment, Douglas Beal of the Boston Consulting Group and Andy Ratcliffe of the Africa Governance Initiative, share lessons on how developing...
View ArticleDavos HotPhrase Generator: now you, too, can share Big Ideas – interactive
Interactive: Did your ticket to the Alpine resort get lost in the mail? Ours did too, but we're not letting that stop us from taking part in the creative word saladGuardian US interactive teamHeidi...
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In the mood for some destratification? Try our Davos HotPhrase Generator
With the 'news' out of the World Economic Forum verging on the banal, the parodies are where the real commentary party is• Build your own Davos HotPhraseTo those not invited – including, frankly, us –...
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