Poverty or Prosperity: Tax, Public Spending and Economic Recovery

Vito Tanzi, Irwin Stelzer,
Deepak Lal, Peter Birch Sorensen,
Arij Lans Bovenberg, Alession Brown & Dennis Snower;
Edited by Sheila Lawlor

April 2010
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As the UK faces tough decisions on restoring fiscal stability, the authors of this volume explain how welfare spending can, and must, be controlled. The problem is two fold. In the global market revenue will be less certain, while pressures on the public purse will rise with demographic ageing. But these leading international economists explain how savings can be made and growth encouraged in a reformed tax and benefits system.

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The Defenestration of Stephen Hester: What Now for the RBS?

writes David B. Smith

Friday 14th June: Stephen Hester may be leaving RBS: but the problems with which the Chancellor must grapple are of a different order. Large banks, be they public or private, avoid the discipline of competition. When it comes to the RBS, even a monolithic ‘good’ bank would be too large on normal competition grounds. RBS should therefore be brought to market as a series of small retail banks.

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