Standard of Living
The UK Peace Index - highlighting the opportunity cost of violent crime
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: From Domestic Product to Domestic Progress
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: Update on Overseas Aid in 2012
Sunday, April 07, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: Doughnut Economics
Sunday, March 17, 2013
The Tutor2u Red Nose Day Challenge
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Economist video on the rising world population
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: Dissecting the Middle-Income Trap
Monday, February 18, 2013
Peter Mandelson famously said that he was ‘intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich’. As
Friday, February 15, 2013
Paul Ormerod: Today Singapore and Japan, Tomorrow China
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Money can’t buy happiness - the backward sloping supply curve tells me so
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: Fair Trade and Micro Finance - Spurs to Development?
Sunday, January 20, 2013
econoMAX - Who’s for a Living Wage?
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: Overseas Aid and Economic Development - Benefits and Costs
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: GDP and PPP Adjustments
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Unit 2 Macro: Key Term Glossary
Friday, January 04, 2013
econoMAX - Educating Girls Worldwide
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Economics of a Living Wage
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: UK to End Financial Aid to India from 2015
Monday, November 12, 2012
National Stress Awareness Day
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Micro Finance, Fair Trade and Development
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
A Living Wage part 2 - some evidence for student analysis
Monday, October 29, 2012
A Living Wage
Doughnut Economics- very tasty!
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Economics of Overseas Aid
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Video Shorts on Economic Growth and Inequality
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The Big Issue of Poverty in the UK
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Progress in Meeting Development Goals in India
Sunday, September 30, 2012
LSE lecture: Policy Challenges for Growth in Africa and South Asia
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Development Economics - Focussed Links
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Income and Wealth Inequality
Sunday, September 09, 2012
The Complex Relationship Between GDP and Economic Welfare
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Child Poverty 2012 - It Shouldn’t Happen Here
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Can we really measure happiness with a calculator?
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: World Income Groups - 2012 Classification
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Esther Duflo - Development Economist
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Poverty Reduction Strategies in Brazil
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Unit 4 Macro M-PESA supporting growth and development
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Rapid Wage Inflation in China
Friday, July 13, 2012
Environmental Economics: Natural Capital
Friday, July 06, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: How Do We Measure Poverty?
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Inclusive Wealth and Sustainable Development
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: China and Reinventing Innovation
Sunday, June 17, 2012
How do you define poverty?
Thursday, June 14, 2012
The Economics Teacher Network on Twitter
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Unit 2 Macro: Migration and the UK Economy
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: African Human Development Report 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Under-employment - the dark side of flexible working or just a sign of the recession?
Unit 1 Micro: Minimum Wages and Living Wages
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Tullow Oil and African Development
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Managing the Global Commons - Limits to GDP
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Market Failure in Private Health Care
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Unit 2 Macro: Revision on Real Disposable Income
Monday, April 02, 2012
Unit 2 Macro: Gross National Happiness in Bhutan
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Budget 2012 - analysis with evidence
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Inequality - The Rise of Fuel Poverty
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Unit 1 Micro - Labour Migration and the Economy
Monday, March 05, 2012
Unit 2 Macro: Rosling on China and the UK Converging
Friday, February 24, 2012
Unit 1 Economics: Panorama - Poor America
Friday, February 17, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: Richard Wilkinson on Inequality and Economic Harm
Sunday, February 05, 2012
Unit 2 Macro:Video Resources on Human Development Data
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Unit 2 Macro: Signs of Progress for Zimbabwe
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Unit 2 Macro: Focus on China - Per Capita Incomes
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Focus on India - Economic Growth
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Unit 2 Macro: Population Shift in China
Monday, January 23, 2012
Video Resources on Rising Inequality
Unit 4 Macro: Russia Joins the WTO
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Beyond the Bike - The Importance of Remittances
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Newsnight on rebalancing the UK economy
Friday, January 13, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Development Issues: The Baby Boom in Zambia
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Unit 2 Macro: Brazil Overtakes UK in Economic Size
Monday, December 26, 2011
Great Blog to Follow - Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Changing Consumer Behaviour - falling incomes
Monday, December 19, 2011
Millennium Development Goals - Uneven Progress
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Unit 1 Micro: Empty Housing and Economic Efficiency
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Rising prices and falling real incomes
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Inequality data
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Unit 4 Macro: America’s hour-glass economy
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Unit 4 Macro: China and India - Notes from Martin Wolf
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Unit 4 Macro: Should TNCs make full disclosure on factory wages?
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Tour of the US income distribution – “The L Curve”
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Unit 2 Macro: A Widening Regional Divide in Life Expectancy
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Unit 4 Macro: World Food Day
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Unit 4 Macro: Unit Labour Costs and Inflation
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Changing Consumer Behaviour - Taxing Saturated Fat
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Unit 4 Macro: When China Met Africa
Unit 2 Macro: Exercise on National income
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Unit 4 Macro: Bangladesh and Comparative Advantage in Textiles
Monday, September 19, 2011
Unit 2 Macro: Economic Growth and Inequality
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Unit 4 Macro: National Income and Standard of Living
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Childcare cost means that working doesn’t pay
Sunday, September 04, 2011
“We need to make more stuff, using the same number of people…”
Saturday, July 16, 2011
The rising cost of the minimum standard of living
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
China: The End of Cheap Labour
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
AS Micro: Fears over a century of hunger
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
AQA ECON4 Context
Monday, June 20, 2011
North Korean Global Happiness Index is Launched!
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
AS Micro: Offering heart drugs by default
Friday, May 06, 2011
Macroeconomics revision - measuring Consumer Confidence
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
The economic & social benefits of migration
Saturday, April 16, 2011
AS Macro Key Term: Gross National Income (GNI)
Thursday, April 07, 2011








