The April 2010 WEO forecast a UK annual growth rate of nearly 3% in 2012-2013; instead, GDP is likely to contract this year and increase by roughly 1% next year. Much of this costly divergence from the earlier projections can be attributed to the benign view of fiscal consolidation that UK authorities and the IMF shared.
在2010年4月的《世界经济展望》中，IMF预测2012—2013年英国年经济增长率为近3%；目前的预测是今年GDP可能出现下降，明年大约也只能增长1%。早先的预测产生如此巨大的差异的原因可以归于英国当局和IMF对财政整合估计不足。