The OECD, Inline with many economic forecasting organisations have in recent months revised UK growth forecasts lower, today the OECD announced that UK growth for 2008 is expected to be 1.8% against 2% in Dec 07, and growth for 2009 to fall to 1.4%.

The organisation cited the weakening housing market and the tight credit conditions for the the lower growth forecast and urged the Bank of England to keep interest rates on hold to help curb rising inflation.

The Market Oracle forecast for UK growth as of December 07 is for GDP growth for 2008 of between 1% and 1.3%, therefore expect the government and mainstream organisations to continue to keep revising growth forecasts lower by year end to merge with the Market Oracle forecast. The 2009 forecasts at between 1.4% and 2.5% seem overly optimistic as the UK will flirt and possibly enter into recession during 2009, therefore any recovery into 2009 year end may not be able to lift overall growth to much above 0.5% for the year as a whole.

Summary of UK GDP Growth Forecasts for 2008

Market Oracle 1% to 1.3% (Dec 07)
CBI 2% (Dec 07)
UK Treasury 2.15%, 2.5% for 2009 (Dec 07)
European Commission 2.2% for 2008 and 2.5% for 2009 (Dec 07)
Oxford Economics 2.3% (Dec 07)
OECD 2% (Dec 07)
International Monetary Fund 2.3% (Oct 07)
Capital Economics 2% (Dec 07)

By Nadeem Walayat

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