🇬🇧🇪🇺 In this week's Beyond Brexit news:

The @IMFNews warns that Britain’s set to fall behind on growth in 2023, and India seeks to lock in a UK trade deal by October.

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bloomberg.com/news/newslette… Britain faces slower growth and worse inflation than Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Japan and the US, according to @IMFNews.

That undermines PM Boris Johnson's claims that the UK's the fastest growing G7 nation because of its vaccine rollout.

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Economics has a 'dirty secret' that's driving women away: it's a 'testosterone-fuelled bear pit', one of the UK's most influential economic policymakers says.

🧵, and full story with @PhilAldrick: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… That's @OBR_UK's David Miles' assessment and it's borne out in the data.

A 2020 survey by the @RoyalEconSoc found:
- more than half found the climate aggressive
- less than half found it respectful
- a third said they'd been subjected to inappropriate sexually-related behaviour

A quarter of the world's female population turns menopausal in 2030 and the productivity losses of not supporting them adequately cost the global economy billions of dollars a year

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https://twitter.com/BloombergTV/status/1405841997861208067?s=20

Via @economics 👉 bloom.bg/3wD2Pv7 Symptoms of menopause like hot flushes, loss of sleep and mood swings negatively affect 3 in 5 working women, according to the @CIPD

It found almost a million women left the workforce because of them - a huge, preventable loss that feeds into the gender pay gap & pensions gap

🇬🇧🇪🇺 In this week's Beyond Brexit news:

The clock's ticking on a solution to the Northern Ireland dispute, and Australia struck a trade deal with Britain

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Time's running out to reach a solution in the spat over Northern Ireland, @DavidGHFrost said

He repeated @BorisJohnson's threat to suspend parts of the Brexit divorce agreement if the EU doesn’t change its approach to checks on goods

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🇬🇧🇪🇺 In this week's @Brexit news:

1. The double whammy of new border formalities and Covid testing requirements left >50% of firms that ship EU-UK facing delays since Jan. 1

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bloomberg.com/news/newslette… 2. Some truckers who braved the journey to the Continent found themselves stuck for hours in Kent waiting for transit documents - while the forms aren’t new, the majority of exports never needed them before 🚛🚚

From @Joe_Mayes 👇

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Next, British exporters must register to pay VAT in EU nations.

It's prompting a number of companies to halt their cross-border trade, @bdoaccountant says.

For eco-friendly nappy and wet wipe seller @mama_bamboo, "We have to ask is it worth all the time and effort.” Another case: @PotatoHouseUK sells seed potatoes but new rules mean the EU effectively isn't accepting them 🥔

“We’ll need phytosanitary certificates & the paperwork’s going to have to accompany every order," says @andrewskea, who worries for the SME he built over 20 years

🚛🚢 The rise in post-Brexit cross-Channel freight rates is expected to stick - was up 39% on Q3 last week

@RHADuncanB says it'll "never fall completely because there’s a permanent added cost of the significant extra bureaucracy"

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bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Remember the quiet at Dover over New Year & @michaelgove warning "significant disruption" to come? 🤫

Transport demand's finally recovering - back at 78% of Q3 average, @TRANSPOREON_TPG data show

As stockpiles dwindle, freight firms are cashing in 💰

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