Budget deficit an option for Australia: IMF

By Clancy Yeates
Updated November 16 2012 - 12:13pm, first published 11:07am
The economy would grow by 3 per cent next year, though this would be ''narrowly driven by a mining investment boom'', the IMF forecast.
The economy would grow by 3 per cent next year, though this would be ''narrowly driven by a mining investment boom'', the IMF forecast.

The International Monetary Fund says abandoning a budget surplus this financial year is an option for the Gillard government if the economy worsens significantly this financial year.

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