<p>Efficiency savings alone won't be enough to sort out the UK's massive deficit and there will have to be cuts in the quality and/or quantity of public services coupled with cuts to welfare benefits and increases in tax, write Rowena Crawford and Carl Emmerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. </p><p></p>
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Deputy Director
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.
Rowena Crawford
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Crawford, R and Emmerson, C. (2010). The axe is coming soon and it will hurt, warns the IFS. London: Public Service. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/axe-coming-soon-and-it-will-hurt-warns-ifs (accessed: 29 March 2024).
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