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GERS 2020: Socially distance yourself from the myths and furore

Episode 28 Published 6 years, 1 month ago

GERS Guide

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Timestamps

(00:58) What is GERS?

(03:00) The history of GERS

(05:15) What does it mean that GERS is an “accredited” National Statistics publication

(08:22) The evolution of GERS in terms of quality of methods

(11:04) What does it mean that some of the figures in GERS are estimated?

(20:51) What are the controversial spending elements?

(23:45) What have recent issues been about the interpretation of GERS?

(25:58) Should GERS do more to compare to other regions of the UK rather than the UK as a whole?

(29:40) GERS and the constitutional debate