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Economic analysisEconomic & Business Outlook and forecasting Survey work The Budget Monetary policy Other policy work Committees Economic & Business Outlook and forecastingThe CBI's 2005 macroeconomic forecast came a very creditable ninth equal out of 40 in the Sunday Times annual forecast league table. The quarterly Economic & Business Outlook (EBO) is an invaluable round-up of key UK, US and European economic issues, including our UK forecasts. Shorter monthly updates are also available. All EBO publications are available free of charge to CBI members. Click here to subscribe.Survey workThe CBI produces a wide-ranging portfolio of regular qualitative business data. Click here for the full list of surveys, and ordering information.The BudgetPre-Budget Report recommendations November 2006 (PDF 109kb)Budget analysis March 2006 (PDF 169kb) Budget recommendations March 2006 (PDF 307kb) Pre-Budget Report analysis 2005 (PDF 153kb) Pre-Budget Report submission 2005 (PDF 335kb) CBI response to 2004 Budget, (PDF 175kb) CBI 2004 Budget submission, (PDF 301kb) Pre-budget report 2003: CBI opinion (PDF 150kb) Monetary policyThe economics team formulates CBI interest rate policy.Go to the CBI newsroom and click on 'economics' to read more about monetary policy, as we respond to the Bank of England's decision on interest rates each month. Other policy workThe economics team also formulates policy on structural issues and ad hoc topics determined by current events. Click here to view briefing documents on structural issues including EMU and investment.CommitteesCBI policy is formulated by committees of members with relevant specialist knowledge, which advise us on how to respond to consultations and on other issues that we should be taking forward with UK government, the European Commission and the European Parliament.Economic Affairs Committee (EAC)Charles Miller Smith (chairman of Scottish Power plc and international adviser to Goldman Sachs International) chairs the EAC. This committee of managing directors, financial directors and chief economists of member companies who meet in the EAC eight times per year oversees CBI economic policy.Vacancies on these committees do occur from time to time. Speak to your usual CBI contact for information on these. Click here to go to the Policy Work page. If you need free Adobe Acrobat PDF reader software or help with PDF documents, go to the Adobe Accessibility site at http://access.adobe.com Email us if you have accessibility requirements. |
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