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Good Day Team UK!
You are supposed to only choose max three key articles and analyse the happenings as mentioned in the article. I see 6 here. For GDP, both articles have similar points so this is fine. Either one is good.

GDP analysis comment:
Not just foreign direct investment will be affected, local firms are also fearing the future. Negative sentiments. Link this to GDP. Good point about consumer sentiments as well.  Try using the expenditure approach equation to analyse impact. Further questions for thoughts - How would a drop in pound help net exports revenue besides the negative impact team mentioned, for a more rounded analysis. Wage was mentioned too. Impact on consumption?

Inflation analysis comment:
Good point about cost-push inflation. Do explore more about the reasons such as why oil price is rising. I don't have access to FT link. For the measures that government can do, check that your suggestions has not already been done. Any reason why it is not done etc. There's a typo in the first statement. For info, the policy is contractionary monetary policy. Comments about wage, I thought the article said wage lags behind inflation? Real wage is starting to fall.  This point in body 2 and 3 conflict each other.

Unemployment analysis comment: A bit brief, possibly due to the fact that the article chosen has got minimal description too. Please do further research and find out for instance, type of unemployment prevalent in UK. Higher unemployment rate for the younger people was mentioned in your chosen article. Find out why. In terms of rise in numbers that dropped out of workforce, any comments?

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INTRODUCTION

1. Summary of United Kingdom's Economy.

2. Why United Kingdom's economy is essential to the world and Singapore.

3. What has led to United Kingdom's economic drop which led to inflation and other issues.

BODY 1 (GDP)

1. Analyzing the GDP of United Kingdom.

2. Discovering the cause of the drop in GDP.

3. Effects of slow growth of GDP.

BODY 2 (UNEMPLOYMENT)

1. Analyzing the unemployment rate of United Kingdom.

2. Analyzing the effects of unemployment on the lives of the British and foreigners in the UK.

3. How the government can solve increasing unemployment rate in United Kingdom.

BODY 3 (INFLATION)

1. Causes of inflation.

2. Effects of inflation on the nation.

3. Solutions to inflation.

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1. ANALYSIS ON GDP
In 2017, GDP growth fell more than expected to 0.3% in the first quarter from 0.7% in the previous quarter, slowest for a year. This was led by consumers whose income are decreasing due to slow rate of unemployment and wage growth, and increasing rate of inflation.

2. CAUSES OF THE DROP OF GDP
The rate of GDP in UK dropped as the post referendum rise in living costs affected British households and hit consumer spending.

Consumer-facing sectors such as shops and hotels have been affected in recent months by the squeeze on Britons’ spending power from the pound’s plunge since the Brexit vote. Sterling’s weakness makes imports to the UK such as food and fuel more expensive. Higher crude oil prices has increased inflation to its highest level for more than three years.

The drop in GDP is also caused by the slow growth in retail and service sector as consumers are purchasing lesser than before.

3. EFFECTS OF SLOW GROWTH OF GDP
Employees' average earnings will fall below pre-recession levels.
Although there is a slow growth rate, inflation will continue to affect consumers negatively but the outlook for manufacturing and exports has brightened.

lhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/28/uk-gdp-growth-inflation-economy-brexit-vote

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1. OVERVIEW OF THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE OF UK
The unemployment rate indicates the proportion of the labour force that is actively seeking for jobs, while they are able and willing to work. The rate of unemployment in UK has been recorded the lowest since 1975 with a percentage of 4.6, approximately about 1.54m people who are out of work currently. UK is now at its natural rate of unemployment, which means that its productivity capacity is fully utilised.

2. GOVERNMENTAL ACTION
Low unemployment rate also proves that the government have been effective in creating more jobs to meet the increasing demands of goods and services by consumers. To deal with increasing demand of consumers, more part-time workers have moved to full-time shifts to produce more goods and services.

3. EFFECTS ON THE PUBLIC
Despite the low rate of unemployment, the nominal wage growth is surprisingly low, falling behind the inflation rate of 2.7% compared to a percentage of 2.4. This means that the purchasing power of the employees does not match up with the general price of goods and services. High demand of workers and low unemployment rate would normally encourage employers to increase wages but in this situation it does not seem likely to happen. This may be due to increasing wage expense caused by hiring more workers in the industry to meet the demands of consumers and produce more goods and services, hence resulting in employers increasing wages at slower rate. Rising inflation and low real wages have caused British to cut down on their spending. The purchasing power of British and foreigners in UK have dropped. This means that the unemployment rate is overstated. Hence it does not fully reflect the living standards of UK.

Productivity growth is important to long-term improvements in wages and living standards, which is why government and economists are always striving to have its productivity at its maximum, so that it can improve the living standards of British and foreigners living in UK.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/05/17/uk-unemployment-lowest-level-since-1975-prices-rise-faster/

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Unemployment rate (aged 16 and over, seasonally adjusted)

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1. CAUSES OF INFLATION
Inflation has accelerated in Britain in recent months, pushed up by a weakening of the pound since last year's decision by voters to leave the European Union, and by the rise in oil prices which has fueled inflation in other countries too.

Another factor of inflation was the cost-pull factor. As the prices of the items needed to produce goods and services become more expensive , the costs of production will lead to an increase the the final market value of the item. causing a weakening in the real income of the people in United Kingdom. For example, due to the increase in prices of oil set by the Organisation of Oil Exporting Countries (OPEC) it has lead to a higher price per barrel of oil. Leading to higher production costs in many goods and services such as electricity , fuel and plastic.

2. EFFECTS OF INFLATION ON THE PUBLIC
Inflation brought about the increase in wages and increase in unemployment rate as businesses will try to cut cost. Some other effects are the increase in taxes on air passengers, housing costs (utility bills), and decrease in retail price due to inflation.

With wages growing at the same rate or slightly slower than prices in the shops, many households are facing the prospect of a renewed squeeze on their incomes after a respite when inflation dipped to zero in 2015 and remained low last year.

3. GOVERNMENT MEASURES
A way is to call back loans and debt that are owed to the government and increasing the interest paid on bonds so that more investors will buy them. By doing so , it would lead to an increase in investors in United Kingdom as which more more attracted interest rates, foreign investors will find it more attractive to invest in the nation. Leading to an increase in demand for the currency. Also, by calling back loans and debts, and when that occurs, it leads to lesser demand-pull inflation.

The government can introduce the exchange rate policy. Which means to control the rate of inflation by force thus helping reduce inflationary pressures. However, this method was once attempted and scraped as to maintain the value of the currency , it lead to an increase in interest rates thus causing recession.

Another way is to increase minimum wage so that the real wage will increase faster than the interest rate which can lead to increased spending which stimulates the economy. However this doesn't work because there are other more economic factors that will be jeopardized such as  change in business profit which could be deadly to employment rates.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-inflation-idUKKBN17D0TT