Brexit vote – UK Growth Forecast
Introduction
British Citizens made a choice on the 23rd June 2016, to leave the European Union. The UK has been a member of the European Union (EU) since 1973 and the EU gives many economic benefits to member’s countries, such as free movement of labour, harmonisation of regulations and the stability of being in the world’s largest trade block within 28 united countries.
The interest of many UK and non UK Citizens dwelled on the idea of what will happen the UK’s economy, what impact would this make to the rest of the world and its currency. In this paper it analyses the impact this has made to the GDP growth and the forecast for 2017. In July, soon after the 23 June referendum, the International Monetary Fund cut its 2016 GDP growth forecast from 1.9 per cent to 1.7 per cent and the 2017 forecast from 2.2 per cent to 1.3 per cent. The International Monetary Fund its near-global membership of 189 countries, the IMF offers policy advice and financing to members in economic difficulties and works with developing nations to help them achieve macroeconomic stability and reduce poverty.
This subject is good topic to analyse as it has impacted many of u, and therefore foresee how the future of UK economy looks like for 2017, by extracting economist’s predictions and looking at actual data, to predict the forecast of 2017. Due to the expectation that lower migration, trade and capital flows would take a toll, the IMF said it has also revised
The performance of the UK economy depends very much on the level of Aggregate demand within the economy. AD=C+I+G+(X-M). The UK economy can be judged by a number of key indicators mainly sustainable economic growth, low inflation (target 2%), a surplus on the
The conclusion drawn from the information obtained is that the Bank of England and the UK have been relatively successful if measured against other similar sized nations across Europe. True measurement though is done by looking at unemployment, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, Bank of England interest rate, inflation rate, 3 month Treasury rate, public debt, and imports and exports, (economics watch 2013). In this case the UK has not done so well with higher inflation, freezes on public services, increased national debt and increased unemployment (economics watch 2013) – this therefore is more of the effects on the people of the UK as a result of
4). Under the optimistic scenario the UK will have to pay the EU to remain a part of the EU’s single market, resulting in an increased cost to trade, while under the pessimistic the cost of trade for Britain will increase due to tariffs and increased regulations to get their product into the market. These increased tariffs, and the costs needed to meet regulations hurt the suppliers of goods resulting in a slowdown in the flow of goods and a reduced GDP. Dhingra et. al. uses the estimations of the two scenarios to show a direct correlation between leaving the UK leaving the EU and detrimental impacts to the UK’s economy, and as such the flow of goods.
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The issue of whether or not the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union has been debated heavily over the past decade, with the debate heating up even more from the current European Sovereign Debt Crisis. Recent polls of the UK population showed that around half of the UK’s citizens would vote to pull out of the EU if it went to referendum. However, after all of the economic, political, and social advantages of being a member of the EU are considered, it remains clear that leaving the EU is not in the UK’s best interest. Economically, it does not make sense for the UK
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The occurrence of Brexit in the UK economy is already having an effect on the Job market. This is mainly due to uncertainty caused by the UK’s volatile political situation and no full direction by the Brexit campaigners on how the UK’s economy can move forward. The UK job market had not fully recovered from the effects of the recession and added with this uncertainty from leaving the EU, employers aren’t willing to employ workers on a permanent basis as they do not know the long term cost. Therefore, the unemployment rate in the UK is rising but not as drastic in comparison to the financial crisis of 2009. In this essay, I am going to analyse the current labour market in the UK looking at indicators such as; wages, regions, gender and so on with the focus on the Banking and Finance Sector. I will also comment on the specific job role of an Actuarial consultant as this work role involves providing well-informed advice and understanding of mathematics and statistics to make long-term financial forecasts which ironically would be very useful for the UK’s current economic climate. Actuaries help in the decision making processes of private firms and governments as they give clear indicators on what and how financial decisions should be made from the calculations they make and then explain the information calculated in a way that is easily understood. A knowledge of the current situation of this job sector is of high importance as firstly, it’s a field of work that I am
The “Great Recession” is commonly used to explain the massive economic contraction that occurred in the United States during the fourth quarter of 2007. However, the actions of the United States spanned to other nations, leaving massive effect on the global economy. One nation that took on serious financial burden during this recession was the United Kingdom. This nation first faced the effects of the Great Recession beginning in the first quarter of 2008. Overall, the initial mass effects on the nation can be attributed to the nation’s reliance on the financial sector. In fact, after partially stabilizing in 2009, the country struggled with a double-dip recession between 2010-12, and continues to struggle with some of these effects.
Since the global financial crisis of 2008, the UK government has been implementing various policies to combat the recession and stimulate economic growth. This essay will look at how effective the fiscal and monetary policies used since the crisis are in achieving the four-macro economic objectives. In addition, I will provide my input on the best way the UK government can carry out these policies.
This case study will look at the meaning of “balanced economic recovery”, the value of imports to the UK economy, the benefits of a weak British pound, the reasons why the depreciation of pound failed to improve the UK balance of trade and the impact of a rise in taxation and cuts spending on the UK trade deficit.
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The first and the most unfavorable outcome of Brexit is that the UK would lose the trading agreements with its largest trading partner - European Union. The membership in this organization meant the decline of the transaction costs and fees on trading operations between the members of the union. In fact, European Union members have the free trade agreement, which means the free flow of goods and services between the countries. According to BBC (2016) Britain has the negative trading balance with the rest of the EU, which means that it exports more
On 23rd of June 2016, a slight majority of citizens of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. This historical event was called Brexit (abbreviation for British Exit), and the news has shaken the world, brought anxiety about the future of the United Kingdom. It will particularly influence international trade, due to the point that one of the most significant role of EU is encouraging free trade among its members. Also, trade contracts signed between EU and non-EU nations applied to all EU members, and UK has been largely benefited by them. The proportion of trade with EU are enormous: ranging from 38 percent to 49 percent for import, and 49 percent to 55 percent for export in 2015, respectively (HM Revenue and Customs, 2016). However, since UK will no longer be a member of the EU, she has to renegotiate with EU and also other nations. It is fairly possible that the UK will not be able to sustain its strong position in international society once it loses advantages of belonging to EU. This essay will demonstrate various influences Brexit will have on the UK’s international trade relations and effects on the business growth of each industry: primary, secondary, and tertiary.
The combination associated with lower amount of worldwide growth and low costs of oil has meant that CPI value got reduced with the inflation forecasts has been revised by every major Central Bank. This is the reason why it has been seen that the market expectations related to the interest rates duration has been extended further. Due to weaker growth and opportunities related to inflation, GDP forecast, which have been calculated at present prices, that is basically the nominal GDP (Chun et al, 2015, p. 532). It has been predicted by the IMF in 2015 that Global nominal GDP growth will decline by 50% of the rate that was there in 20097, thus making it very difficult to decrease debt-to-GDP ratios. The UK (United Kingdom) is considered to have the most open trading economy in the entire world and does not have immunity towards a weaker global outlook. Though, the productivity growth of the UK has been low since the occurrence of the financial crisis in similar with other