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The economy will grow by just 0.7 per cent in 2024, down from a previously forecast and already-anaemic 0.8 per cent, the OECD predict.
This will be the second-slowest growth rate among the world’s leading G7 advanced capitalist economies. It may rise to a feeble 1.2 per cent in 2025.

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