The government had also downgraded the economic assessment when it said last week that the economy was weakening.

The Bank provided both an economic and legal assessment.

But the report - the first major full-year economic assessment of 1996 - also shows an economy that was deeply divided.

Using different methods, an economic assessment was carried out.

Should the State Department be given responsibility for political and economic assessments?

Impacts of distant water fleets: an ecological, economic and social assessment.

A more telling economic assessment might be the marginal cost of electricity.

"The government has nothing to say on this topic until the economic assessment is published."

The government has not yet said when Mr. Brown's economic assessment will be made public.

The publication said banks were setting rates in a narrow range and waiting for the Government to make another economic assessment.