Plan to double UK economic growth unlikely to succeed: NIESR
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LONDON (Reuters) - The goal of British finance minister Sajid Javid of doubling the pace of economic growth has only a one-in-five chance of success, a think tank said, citing the huge task of snapping the country out of its chronic run of poor productivity.Javid has said he wants to raise the underlying pace of economic growth to around 2.75% a year, a rate last achieved in 2006, and will use his first post-Brexit budget on March 11 to set out how the government plans to boost growth.The..