United Kingdom: Selected Issues

Publication Date:

August 2, 2001

Electronic Access:

Free Download. Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF file

Summary:

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the specialty about the cyclical expansion in the United Kingdom. The paper reviews the labor market data, wage inequality, and implications for inequality. The study examines the contributions of information and communications technologies investment to output and labor productivity growth in the United Kingdom. The paper provides a qualitative assessment of the impact of the appreciation of sterling on U.K. foreign trade, and its effects on competitiveness, and the sectoral composition of production.

Series:

Country Report No. 2001/124

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

August 2, 2001

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451981445/1934-7685

Stock No:

ISCREA01124

Pages:

89

Please address any questions about this title to publications@imf.org