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The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves has been widely trailing this month\u2019s budget and the difficult decisions she\u2019ll have to make in just under two weeks time. This is being taken as code for tax rises and a possible break in Labour\u2019s manifesto pledge with a rise in income tax. She\u2019s said one of the key reasons for this is that the government’s official forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility or OBR, is likely to lower its UK productivity growth forecast for the coming years. So why is UK productivity a problem and what can be done to improve it? <\/p>\n
Guests:
\nChris Giles, Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
\nHelen Miller, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
\nDuncan Weldon, economist and author
\nGreg Thwaites, Research Director, Resolution Foundation.<\/p>\n
Presenter: David Aaronovitch
\nProducers: Caroline Bayley, Cordelia Hemming, Kirsteen Knight
\nProduction co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele
\nSound engineers: Rod Farguhar and James Beard
\nEditor: Richard Vadon<\/p>\n