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Thu 06 Jun 2010Investment vital to cultivate growth
OPINION:Imposition of austerity measures will only serve to push economy into deep depression, writes DAVID BEGG
THE SAD truth about the crisis is that there are no green shoots of recovery. Almost daily there are new sightings in ever more obscure areas of the economy, with statistics tortured to make them reveal the news we desperately want to read. But that doesn’t make it real. The fact is without investment stimulus to create jobs and generate domestic demand, this Government’s austerity policies will drive us into deep depression.
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