CNC News:
Stay or leave?
14 March 2016
CNC has asked Dr. Swati Dhingra, Assistant Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science, on the benefits and risks of a Brexit for the UK.
SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): Dr. SWATI DHINGRA, Assistant Professor at LSE ''So we think that if the UK leaves the EU. Because the EU is the UK's trade partner. What that might do to the UK would be that will reduce trade, and that would have impact on UK incomes. So roughly speaking, the numbers that we are looking at depending on how you think future trade polices would look like if Britain did leave the EU, you are going to get numbers from somewhere between 1.3 percent of dropping GDP to about 2.5 percent dropping GDP. And this is only through the channel of international trade, good and services.'' ...
This article was published online by CNC News on March 14, 2016
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Related publications
Life after Brexit: What are the UK's options outside the European Union?, Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson, CEP Brexit Analysis No.01, February 2016
Related links
Swati Dhingra webpage
Thomas Sampson webpage
Trade Programme webpage