Public finances: the long road ahead

Rowena Crawford; Carl Emmerson; Soumaya Keynes

Public finances: the long road ahead

Rowena Crawford, Carl Emmerson and Soumaya Keynes

Book chapter

05 Feb 2014

Chapter 1 of the Green Budget 2014. Download data for chapter 1 figures

The Green Budget 2014 has been funded by the Nuffield Foundation with support from the ESRC through the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS.

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Opening remarks to post-Budget 2018 analysis

30 Oct 2018

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The end of austerity?

16 Oct 2018

Press release

Promises to end austerity and to balance the books by mid 2020s are unlikely to be compatible

Our annual Green Budget looks at the issues and challenges facing Chancellor Philip Hammond as he prepares for his Budget later in October.

16 Oct 2018

Newspaper article

There’s no way Hammond can end austerity and balance the books

The budget is less than two weeks away. Philip Hammond will have some good news to announce on the deficit. But mostly the challenges facing the UK public finances suggest that some very difficult choices will need to be made over the next few years.