That would help restrain demand, would raise money to pay for increasing the capacity of Britain's stunted road network where this is necessary, and would show, through drivers' willingness to pay, where that capacity can most efficiently be added.

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The authorities have taken a number of steps to restrain the demand for the metal, including the federal government raising the import duty on gold and the RBI forbidding banks and non-bank financial companies from financing the purchase of gold in any form.

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On October 19th Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, suggested he would try to boost demand by scrapping previous plans to restrain the rate of increase in public spending and bringing forward to 2009-10 money earmarked for the following year.

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