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AUDIO: IMF: 'We're not passionate about austerity'
2013-01-24 10:22:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Olivier Blanchard, chief economist at the IMF, says that the British government should use the March budget to reassess its austerity programme.
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IMF: UK should rethink austerity
2013-01-24 06:35:25| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard tells the BBC that Chancellor George Osborne should consider toning down austerity in his budget in March.
AUDIO: IMF 'have learnt lessons of austerity'
2013-01-07 10:55:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The International Monetary Fund's top economist, Olivier Blanchard, has acknowledged that the fund blew its forecasts for Greece and other European economies because it did not fully understand how government austerity efforts would undermine economic growth.
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VIDEO: Steve Forbes on austerity 'mistake'
2013-01-03 11:05:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The influential publisher Steve Forbes has criticised the European response to the eurozone debt crisis.
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Is austerity creating savvy sustainable consumers?
2013-01-03 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: With households increasingly struggling to pay the bills it might be assumed that issues such as sustainability would be sidelined. It is certainly true that tightening budgets have hit the sale of organic products, which saw a 3.7 per cent fall in the UK last year. But there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that austerity has triggered a new set of positive shopping behaviours across all social economic groups. Sainsbury's has taken a close look at their customer's shopping habits and...
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