The COVID recession: what does it mean?

Hearne, David (2020) The COVID recession: what does it mean? Centre for Brexit Studies Blog.

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Yesterday saw the release of long-awaited figures on the UK economy. They confirmed what we all knew: there has been a massive slump in output and we have been in a recession. In fact, this slump has been the largest amongst our European and global peers, a fact I shall revisit later in this blog.Yet all is not necessarily as it seems. Superficial comparisons to previous recessions suggest that the severity of the current situation is off-the-scale. Tohighlight just a few of the figures given by the Office for National Statistics, the estimated quarterly fall in GDP (20.4%) is an order of magnitude greater than the second largest fall (2.7%) since modern records began in 1955. For context, the largest quarterly fall in 2008/9 was 2.0%.

Item Type:	Other
Dates:	Date Event 13 August 2020 Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Research, Researcher, Centre for Brexit Studies, BCU, Birmingham City University, Covid, Covid19, Covid-19, Coronavirus, Pandemic, Virus, Recession, UK Recession, Economy, Economist, UK Economy
Subjects:	CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-02 - economics > CAH15-02-01 - economics CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-03 - politics > CAH15-03-01 - politics
Divisions:	Research, Innovation, Enterprise > Centre for Brexit Studies
Depositing User:	Bethan Tolley
Date Deposited:	14 Aug 2020 14:08
Last Modified:	08 Mar 2022 16:46
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9659

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