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		<title>Time for top-line growth, by James Close</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2011/02/time-for-top-line-growth-by-james-close/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Close</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coalition has set out its spending plans. Now ministers must focus on economic growth - to boost the economy's 'top line' or revenue. This should be occupying hearts and minds across Whitehall <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2011/02/time-for-top-line-growth-by-james-close/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Green for go? By James Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Close</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Conservative/LibDem coalition's positioning around being the 'greenest government ever' is encouraging. But there is still much to do and we need to move quickly <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/12/green-for-go-by-james-close/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Power struggle, by James Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Close</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the event of a hung parliament and a minority government, it will be important for the main parties to act on their broad consensus about energy policy. Endlessly debating these issues will take us nowhere fast. <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/03/power-struggle-by-james-close/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Monitoring the quangos, by James Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Close</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAMES CLOSE &#124; A pledge to scrap a number of education quangos underpinned Nick Clegg’s recent announcement to give every child from a poor home a £2,500 funding boost <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/02/monitoring-the-quangos-by-james-close/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not so wonderful Copenhagen, by James Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Close</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAMES CLOSE &#124; As I write, negotiations at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen have been suspended after developing countries withdrew their co-operation <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/12/not-so-wonderful-copenhagen/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A storm is coming, by James Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Close</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAMES CLOSE  &#124;  'This is no time for a novice.' Gordon Brown’s jibe at Davids Cameron and Miliband at last year’s Labour conference was surely one of the better lines of his premiership <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/10/a-storm-is-coming/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Asset idealism, by James Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Close</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shadow of the government’s projected budget deficit of £175bn has loomed large over all three of this year’s party conferences <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/10/asset-idealism/"></a>]]></description>
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