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The COVID-19 pandemic and the public health measures implemented to contain it will lead to a huge spike in government borrowing this year.
This week we released our annual Green Budget report analysing the impact the coronavirus crisis has had across different sectors of the economy and the big decisions confronting the Chancellor.
In this episode, we speak with Green Budget chapter authors Ben Nabarro, Economist at Citi, and Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director at IFS, to get a sense of how big government borrowing could get and what the long-term impacts will be.
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Host
Paul Johnson
Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.
Participants
Carl Emmerson
Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, is expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.
Ben Nabarro
Ben is a Senior Associate in the Global Strategy and Macro Group at Citi Research. He joined Citi in July 2016, previously working in Global Thematic Research and is currently based in the London office. Ben holds a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford and has also studied at Stanford University.
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