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Bigger fiscal multipliers highlight case for rejigging cuts

One of the most attention-grabbing aspects of the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook is its new, bigger estimates of the impact of fiscal consolidations on economic growth. At the very least, this might argue for shifting the composition of the Government’s cuts away from those parts of public sector spending that have the biggest effect on the economy.

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