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The great GDP contraction may herald huge crowding out

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INTERNATIONAL

Economic stimulus schemes and gaps.

Productivity increases could lift living standards

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INTERNATIONAL

While productivity concerns continue to occupy economists, businesses and policymakers, the public is growing increasingly alarmed about working conditions, indebtedness…

Policy can support global finance and welfare

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INTERNATIONAL

Financial globalisation and policy.

Prospects for the global economy to end-2022

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PROSPECTS

Prospects for the global economy to end-2022.

Gig workers will slowly redress the benefits imbalance

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INTERNATIONAL

ILO employment-protection recommendations.

Rising US joblessness and social discord threaten GDP

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UNITED STATES

Rates of disability fell from 2010 to early 2020 and rates of drug overdoses began to stabilise as the persistently unemployed were drawn back into employment, particularly…

Policy must look beyond pay to raise living standards

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INTERNATIONAL

Elections have already given the public an opportunity to vent their anger about low wages and the scarcity of better job opportunities -- the former is prevalent among low-paid…

Joblessness will rise as job-save policies are unwound

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INT

Policies have reduced the damage COVID-19 has done to Western job markets but these temporary schemes have to be unwound

Geopolitics, supply stress and rate rises will hit GDP

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INT

The outlook is softening as Ukraine war impacts will aggravate supply chain disruptions and tighter financial conditions