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Researcher, Big Innovation Centre
Email: hsameen@theworkfoundation.com
Telephone: 020 7976 3533
Hiba is a Researcher at the Big Innovation Centre and is currently leading the centre's work programme on building an innovation friendly financial system. Her research interests include the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in models of Schumpeterian growth, and the relationship between financial markets and economic volatility.
Prior to joining the Big Innovation Centre, Hiba has worked at various think tanks. Most recently, she worked as a Research Fellow in the Economics unit at Policy Exchange, where she worked across the Economic research programme with a particular focus on economic growth and macroeconomic policy. Her major publications include reports and papers on economic growth and taxation, fiscal policy, and banking regulation.
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The output gap: What do the OBR forecasts really tell us? Yesterday’s budget was meant to put Britain back on the path to growth and recovery. The Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) has set out in its forecasts what that path might look like. As the government’s watchdog on public finances, its primary function is to ensure that the government is meeting its fiscal mandate during this period of austerity. But as the governments’ fiscal target is to eliminate the structural deficit by 2016/17, one of the key judgements they are required to make is the size of the output gap.
Hiba Sameen 22 March 2012
Will the National Loan Guarantee Scheme provide a stimulus for the economy to grow? In the run-up to the Budget, the Chancellor has announced the launch of the National Loan Guarantee Scheme as part of his credit easing plans to help the economy grow. The scheme guarantees, in the first instance, £5bn of funds (which is to increase to up to £20bn depending on the success of the scheme) for companies with a turnover of up to £50m at interest rates discounted by 100 basis points. The Federation of Small Businesses has recently reported that 60% of small businesses felt that credit was unaffordable – thus, this scheme should go some way to help reduce that burden.
Hiba Sameen 20 March 2012