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...“If you want to get an MBA, now is a good time because you would be graduating when the market is picking back up,” says Keith Bevans, global head of consultant recruiting....
...“The crunch is getting the right tree in the right place,” said Keith Kirby, woodland ecologist at the University of Oxford....
...Additional reporting by Robin Yu in Hong Kong, Qianer Liu in Shenzhen, Christian Shepherd in Beijing, Jason Kirby in Toronto and Naomi Rovnick in London...
...To January 24, barbican.org.uk Photograph: Keith Pattison...
...Keith Wakefield, who leads on transport for the West Yorkshire combined authority, said: “The key is connectivity....
...John Kirby’s clear-eyed film, Gallipoli: When Murdoch Went to War (Saturday, BBC2 8.30pm) is as much about journalistic coverage as fighting....
...Simon Kirby, Head of Macromodelling and Forecasting, NIESR Government policy seems to broadly have the aims of inducing a little bit more supply and a little bit more demand....
...Simon Kirby, Head of Macromodelling and Forecasting, NIESR a) struggle to impose his planned spending cuts and revenues will fall short of expectations The magnitude of the current fiscal consolidation...
...Keith Wade, Chief economist, Schroders Marginally tighter: interest rates rising to 1% by year end....
...Keith Wade, Chief economist, Schroders The current account deficit at 4.5% of GDP highlights the unbalanced nature of the recovery....
...Simon Kirby, Head of Macromodelling and Forecasting, NIESR I expect a further year of reasonable growth....
...Simon Kirby, NIESR Depends over what time horizon we are thinking about....
...Simon Kirby, economist NIESR The ‘average’ household should experience rising real disposable incomes throughout next year....
...Simon Kirby, economist NIESR I expect it to....
...Keith Wade, Schroders Not in 2015 or 2016, but thereafter, like last time, the austerity plans will slip....
...Keith Wade, Schroders Balancing growth and inflation trends is always difficult, but interest rates are still at emergency levels which does not seem appropriate for an economy approaching full employment...
...Keith Wade, Schroders: That it has been resolved as productivity has finally picked up as firms meet stronger demand by using their existing workforce more effectively....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: If unemployment continues to fall at its current pace the bank will face the prospect of having to tighten policy next year on its current guidance....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: There is a danger that the “help to buy” scheme will create a bubble which will burst when it is withdrawn....
...Simon Kirby, NIESR: The weak performance of the economy over the period 2011-12 was exacerbated by domestic fiscal consolidation....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: Growth should remain robust in 2014 driven by the continued recovery in the housing market and stronger net trade....
...Keith Wade, Schroders: Most of the gains in employment in 2012 were down to an increase in the self-employed, those volunteering, and those working on a part-time basis....
...Simon Kirby, NIESR: House prices in aggregate are still too high. House prices are expected to gradually ‘correct’ over the coming years....
...Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II, by Keith Lowe, Viking, RRP£25 The chaotic interlude between the second world war and Europe’s “cold peace” in the 1950s receives brilliant treatment...
...Simon Kirby, NIESR: The magnitude of any effect from EU withdrawal is obviously highly uncertain. Nevertheless, NIESR colleagues did have a go back in 2004....
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