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    • Monday, 17 February, 2020
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      How to rewrite the rules for UK public finances

      New chancellor should review but not scrap borrowing guidelines

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      Argentina needs a plan for investment-led growth

      Debt talks are unlikely to succeed without a strategy for economic revival

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      Inside the IMF’s outrageous, improbably successful Jamaican programme (Pt. 2)

      Everybody loves a comeback story.

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      Coronavirus impact looms as GDP shrinks at 6.3% rate after consumption tax rise

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      A crossover of fiscal and monetary policy

      The twin pillars need to work together in the next recession

    • Sunday, 16 February, 2020
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      Indian IT industry head accuses US of discrimination over worker visas

      Claims Trump’s crackdown on H-1B visas disproportionately affects Indians

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      China: an economy in quarantine

      If lockdown remains and infections continue to rise, shock to the rest of world could be significant

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      Inside the IMF’s outrageous, improbably successful Jamaican programme (Pt. 1)

      The story of how, half a decade ago, Jamaica hit rock bottom.

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      Headline spending increases, but underlying measures of consumption stall

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