How much will fiscal austerity constrain the recovery?

Governments in most advanced economies have been tightening fiscal policy since 2010 and will continue to do so this year. Our best guess is that growth in 2012 will consequently be around 0.5 percentage points lower than it would be if policy was not being tightened.

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