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Maintain close ties with EU: OECD advises UK
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IANS | 18 Oct, 2017
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria has warned that maintaining close
ties with the European Union and improving productivity would be key to
future living standards in a post-Brexit United Kingdom.
The
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Economic
Survey was presented in London by Gurria and UK's Chancellor of the
Exchequer Philip Hammond, Efe news reported.
"The United Kingdom
is facing challenging times, with Brexit creating serious economic
uncertainties that could stifle growth for years to come," Gurria
warned, adding that "maintaining the closest economic relationship with
the EU will be absolutely key, for the trade of goods and services as
well as the movement of labour".
Gurria said that future
prosperity would "depend on new reforms to improve job quality, boost
labour productivity and ensure that benefits are shared by all".
"In
case Brexit gets reversed by political decision (change of majority,
new referendum, etc.), the positive impact on growth would be
significant," the report said.
Gurria warned that the UK's GDP
growth had slowed down and labour productivity remained at a standstill,
while the UK's unemployment rate stood at its highest on record and job
creation had become more diversified.
Hammond said that the Conservative government would study the OECD recommendations.
Another
OECD recommendation was to reduce the UK's North-South productivity gap
as some regions had grown to rely more on EU funds.
Other
medium-term obstacles the OECD foresees are a possible second Scottish
referendum and the EU's land border question between Ireland and the UK
which "could threaten the peace process".
The UK is scheduled to leave the European Union (EU) at the end of March 2019.
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