UK Current Account Deficit Hits Six-Year HighBritain posted its biggest current account deficit in six yearsin 2005, according to official...
Ms Truss quickly discovered that one should not attempt to offer a spending bonanza against the backdrop of sharply rising inflation and interest rates, a punishing global energy crisis, as well as a British current account deficit which ballooned to an unprecedented 8 per cent of gross domestic...
In September 2014, Labour outlined plans to cut the government's current account deficit and balance the budget by 2020, excluding investment. The party carried these plans into the 2015 general election,[106] which Labour lost. Its representation fell to 232 seats in the House of Commons.[107...
A. fourth B. second C. first D. third 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 [正确答案] D [答案解析] 答案选D。In 2007, the UK had the world’s third largest current account deficit.参见教材P142。 本题知识点:Development of the British Economy Since WWⅡ,反馈 收藏 ...
Its build-up in reserves is supported by a balance-of-payments surplus, aided by a narrower current-account deficit, with the Reserve Bank of India realising the importance of maintaining a forex buffer to protect the economy during periods of market volatility. Prime Minister Narendra Modi added...
Thurrock’s demise has been among the most dramatic in a spate of six council bankruptcies since 2021, with the authority forecasting a deficit of £470mn in 2022-23 with a budget less than a third of the size. Like other councils encouraged during the decade following the 2008 financial ...
% of GDP in 2015. Exports dropped around 40 % in 2015, pushing the current account from a surplus of 0.2 % of GDP to a deficit projected at 2.4 % of GDP. With foreign portfolio inflows slowing significantly, reserves fell to $28.3 billion at end 2015. ...
It is unclear whether poverty and mental illness are causally related. Using UK Biobank and Psychiatric Genomic Consortium data, we examined evidence of causal links between poverty and nine mental illnesses (attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder
Labour’s 21-point poll lead over the Conservatives when the election was called on May 22 is the largest of any opposition party since 1997. No ruling party has recovered from such a large polling deficit so close to an election.
As such the current account deficit is now forecast to average eight per cent of GDP in 2022 and 2023, according to Pantheon Macroeconomics, an independent research consultancy. Bank of England data going back to 1772 shows that this level of deficit has only been exceeded on three occasions,...