Against the backdrop of the UK's biggest peacetime fiscal deficit the government is embarking on an unprecedented set of spending cuts. Paul Johnson argues that we we should not see these cuts as either the beginning, or the end, of dramatic change in the public sector.
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Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.
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Johnson, P. (2012). The fiscal deficit and spending cuts are the challenge of a generation [Comment] IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/articles/fiscal-deficit-and-spending-cuts-are-challenge-generation (accessed: 19 April 2024).
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