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IBEC's Great Leap Forward

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IBEC’s recovery plan for the economy reads like a party manifesto, and not a manifesto of the prudent. It’s a full-throated clarion call for a supersized state to spend our way out of the Covid-19 abyss.

Entitled 'Reboot and Reimagine’ it sets out, in some detail, a list of costed policy proposals across a range of industries.

The echoes of a party manifesto may not be entirely coincidental. IBEC is clearly setting down a marker for an incoming government – when and if we eventually get one - and has ranked its proposals in terms of things to do in the ‘first 100 days’ of a government and so on.

It makes a dutiful nod to the potential political power broker role of the Greens with many references to ‘low carbon investments’.

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