Fiscal rules: outdated and self-defeating
Recent alarm about the level of debt held by Network Rail has highlighted how the Treasury’s archaic fiscal rules put artificial restrictions on the UK’s infrastructure investment.
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John Perry lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he works on