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Adam Posen - Bank of England policy maker

Questions are being asked about the competence of economic policy makers. Stephen Sackur asks Adam Posen why managing the world's richest economies is proving so difficult.

Serious questions are being asked about the competence of economic policy makers in the western world. In the face of unsustainable debt, dwindling growth, rising unemployment and a banking crisis, have the responses been adequate to the challenge? Adam Posen is about to retire as one of the independent members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy committee, Stephen Sackur asks why managing the world's richest economies is proving so difficult.

30 minutes

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Sat 25 Aug 2012 01:30GMT

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