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Sweetener for business? Richard Lea-Hair/EPA

March 19, 2014

Budget 2014: Osborne gambles on business boost to anchor the recovery

Rob Hayward, University of Brighton

As usual the budget is as much about the theatre of the event as it is the economics of what is being announced. The chancellor, George Osborne, was able to make some dramatic pronouncements about pensions…

Green shoots? Dominic Lipinski/PA

March 19, 2014

Budget 2014: experts respond

Karen Rowlingson, University of Birmingham; Chris Martin, University of Bath; Eleonora Belfiore, Loughborough University; Jo Blanden, University of Surrey; John Appleby, City St George's, University of London; John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and Political Science; Kenneth Gibb, University of Glasgow; Michael Kitson, University of Cambridge; Naomi Eisenstadt, University of Oxford; Neil Carter, University of York; Prem Sikka, University of Essex; Richard Fairchild, University of Bath; Richard Jones, University of Sheffield; Rob Hayward, University of Brighton; Suzy Moat, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, and W David McCausland, University of Aberdeen

Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled his fourth budget. The blueprint for recovery includes wholesale changes to pensions and savings, attempts to boost business investment, new relief for the costs…

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