英国经济自高峰一步步地滑下来,患上了所谓“英国病”之后,长期处于呆滞,生产效率低下,通货膨胀严重,财政收支陷入困难的境地。1979年撒切尔夫人当选英国首相后,用重药医治了“英国病”,才使英国经济逐步好转。近年来,撒切尔政府通过推行货币主义政策,控制货币供应量,缩减政府的财政支出,抑制通货膨胀,减少政府干预,发挥市场作用,放宽种种限制,增强企业活力;调整经济结构,注意高技术产业开发,扩大进出口贸易,发展第三产业;对工会采取强硬路线,限制罢工损失,克服懒散现象,提高生产率,才摆脱了“英国病”的困扰,取得令人瞩目的成绩。1、经济基本上保持了稳定增长。国内生产总值1980年是负增长,从1987年开始每年都有2%到4%的增长。1987年增长率为4.5%,1988年第二季度比去年同期增长4%。英国1987 The economy of Great Britain slipped down from the peak step by step. After suffering from the so-called “British disease,” the United Kingdom has been sluggish, inefficient in production, inflated in inflation, and has become in a difficult financial position. After Thatcher’s election in 1979 as the prime minister of the United Kingdom, the British economy was gradually getting better after he cured the “British disease” with heavy drugs. In recent years, the Thatcher administration has played a market role by liberalizing monetary policy, controlling the money supply, reducing the government’s fiscal expenditure, curbing inflation, reducing government intervention, relaxing restrictions and boosting the vitality of enterprises; adjusting economic structure and paying attention to high The development of technology industries expanded the import and export trade and developed the tertiary industry. Only taking hard lines toward the trade unions, limiting the strike losses, overcoming the lazy phenomenon and raising the productivity, did it get rid of the “British disease” and achieved remarkable results. 1, the economy basically maintained a steady growth. Gross domestic product (GDP) in 1980 was negative growth, with an annual increase of 2% to 4% since 1987. The growth rate in 1987 was 4.5%, up 4% in the second quarter of 1988 from a year earlier. Britain 1987