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But a Policy Exchange poll suggested that people in the north hold Margaret Thatcher in higher esteem as a PM than Gordon Brown.
Although those targets were rarely met, Policy Exchange says councils have used their new control over planning to drastically cut their own homebuilding targets.
Ben Caldecott, Head of Policy Exchange's Environment and Energy Unit, said simple, cheap strategies like providing more bins could easily be put into place.
As usual with these inquiries, they're starting with experts - including Dr Adam Marshall of the British Chambers of Commerce, Jessica Bauly, Head of Infrastructure at the CBI, Dr Hugh Ellis, Chief Planner, Town and Country Planning Association, and Alex Morton, Senior Research Fellow, Policy Exchange.
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But this is merely to say that they have no coherent exchange-rate policy: monetary policy and exchange-rate policy (aside from occasional meddling) are operationally indivisible.
Arguments also raged all weekend on the appropriate role of monetary policy and exchange rates.
The single currency has deprived its members of any independent control over monetary policy or the exchange rate, so the burden of any necessary response to a recession falls more on fiscal policy.
"A monetary zone must have an exchange rate policy or else it ends up subjected to an exchange rate that does not match the true state of its economy, " he said.
And low rates will also boost credit creation in those developing countries that import American monetary policy via managed exchange rates.
But French officials show no signs of letting that get in the way of their push for a more activist foreign-exchange policy.
Others have a no-exchange policy or demand that you return the product to one of their stores - a little tricky if they are thousands of kilomet ers away.
Since the mid-1950s, the Fund has demanded policy reforms in exchange for the money that it lends, but in recent years the number and nature of these conditions has greatly expanded.
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The policy point is that the "imbalances" resulted more from reckless monetary policy than from spendthrift American consumers or Chinese exchange-rate policy.
It seems the Ministry of Finance has ceded foreign exchange rate policy back to the Central Bank where it belongs. the bank has, for now, won the policy argument that further weakening of the real will be inflationary and lead to a stronger real exchange rate, says Tony Volpon, managing director at Nomura Securities in New York.
Asked about the trend for central banks to look less at inflation-targeting and more at policy areas that affect exchange rates, Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, said earlier this month that the exchange rate was very important "as far as growth and stability" were concerned but was not a policy target for the ECB.
The usual policy options to revive economies monetary, fiscal or exchange-rate policy aren't available to euro-zone countries that need it.
"Denmark's fixed exchange rate policy will be continued after yesterday's referendum, " the bank said in a statement.
In part because of the advent of all this unconventional monetary policy, foreign-exchange markets have been changing the way they think and operate.
The stable monetary policy disciplined by fixed exchange rates also minimized the boom and bust business cycle, with its periodic sharp recessions hampering long term growth.
Sergey Ignatiev, the man expected to become the new head of Russia's central bank, has said he does not want to see any "serious" changes to the country's exchange rate policy.
Recall that from the end of the Second World War until Nixon stopped redeeming dollars for gold in 1971, international exchange rate policy was anchored in a U.S. dollar backed by gold.
He quoted the ECB's first president, Wim Duisenberg, speaking in 1999, when he said that finance ministers had agreed to exercise their right to orient exchange rate policy only in exceptional circumstances.
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Indeed, studies have shown that even when emerging-market economies say they are floating (as Malaysia, for example, used to), they tend to rely more heavily than the industrial countries do on interest-rate policy and foreign-exchange market intervention to limit actual movements in the exchange rate.
"At the root of the euro upheaval is a balance of payment crisis caused by the cumulative effects of a 13-year-old one-size-fits-all monetary policy and a fixed exchange rate for a collection of disparate countries in very different stages of economic and structural development, " he argues.
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