Unit 4 Macro: Infrastructure and Development
Thursday, July 19, 2012
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This blog will provide a regularly updated selection of news videos on the role that often small-scale infrastructure projects can play in supporting development in some of the least developed countries. Click below to view the current entries:
Building a Brighter Future for Rice Farmers in Cambodia
Vital Roads in the Pacific Islands
India Infrastructure: An Opportunity
What The World Needs. . . Infrastructure (Caterpillar Inc)
The New Africa Growth Story: Financing Infrastructure
Kenya turns to geo-thermal energy
African growth tests port capacity
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Unit 3 Micro: Businesses Prospering During the Depression [13 May 2013]
Cover to Cover - Ten Stories from the FT [8 May 2013]
Infrastructure Projects in the News [30 Apr 2013]
Scoop it Boards for Economics [17 Apr 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Taking the Pulse of Africa - Growth Outlook is Good [16 Apr 2013]
Unit 2 Macro: Investment in UK Economy Remains Low [8 Apr 2013]
Unit 2 Macro: The Great Productivity Puzzle [5 Apr 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Growth and Development in Angola [3 Apr 2013]
Unit 2 Macro: Fresh Serving of Acronym Soup - ZIRPs and PLOGs [2 Apr 2013]
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Development Economics (1) [2 Apr 2013]
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Aggregate Supply (1) [2 Apr 2013]
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Economic Growth (1) [1 Apr 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Growth and Development in Mongolia [31 Mar 2013]
Unit 2 Macro: Revise and Test - Listing of Revision Quizzes [30 Mar 2013]
Unit 2 Macro: Revise and Test - AD and AS and GDP [30 Mar 2013]
Unit 2 Macro: Revise and Test - Aggregate Supply [30 Mar 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: FDI in Africa [29 Mar 2013]
Unit 2 Macro: Revise and Test - Aggregate Demand [28 Mar 2013]
Unit 2 Macro: Revise and Test - Macro Objectives [27 Mar 2013]
Unit 2 Macro: Revise and Test - National Income [27 Mar 2013]
Unit 2 Macro: Revise and Test - The Circular Flow [27 Mar 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: China’s Presence in Europe [26 Feb 2013]
Unit 3 Micro: Winning Bids in 4G Licence Auction [21 Feb 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Abenomics - Changing Monetary Policy in Japan [10 Feb 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: A Manifesto for Growth - the LSE Growth Commission Report [31 Jan 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Global Economic Power Shift Continues [28 Jan 2013]
Unit 3 Micro: Samsung surges ahead in global smartphone sales [27 Jan 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Business Taxes - A Race to the Bottom? [27 Jan 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Fair Trade and Micro Finance - Spurs to Development? [20 Jan 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Micro Credit and Development [18 Jan 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Land Grabs and Development [18 Jan 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Smarter Ways of Measuring Trade in a Globalised World [16 Jan 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Overseas Aid and Economic Development - Benefits and Costs [15 Jan 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Overseas Aid and Economic Development - Basic Background [14 Jan 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Sources of Comparative Advantage [11 Jan 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Economic Growth - the Solow Model [6 Jan 2013]
The Secret Diagram Club [4 Jan 2013]
Unit 1 Micro: Flood Defence for Venice - a Public Good? [4 Jan 2013]
Prospects for the UK Economy in 2013 [2 Jan 2013]
Unit 4 Macro: Global Development - 2012 in Pictures [28 Dec 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Brazil - economic slowdown continues [26 Dec 2012]
Economic Spinners [2 Dec 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Mo Tanweer - Debunking the Myths of China [27 Nov 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Paul Collier on Key Development Issues [26 Nov 2012]
Peter Marsh - A New Industrial Revolution [21 Nov 2012]
Bangladesh: As good as it looks on paper? [18 Nov 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Pinterest Board on Aggregate Demand and Supply [11 Nov 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: How Hot Dogs Are Made [11 Nov 2012]
Chocolate Passion - Grown in St Lucia, Made in Cambridge [9 Nov 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Classroom Exercise - Shifts in AD and AS [6 Nov 2012]
Student View: Aggreko - Turning short-term solutions into long-term profit [1 Nov 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Ford announces the closure of UK assembly plants [26 Oct 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Macro Memes [19 Oct 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The UK Economy - What Would Keynes Do? [7 Oct 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Growth and Development Constraints for India [1 Oct 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Mining and the Natural Resource Curse [24 Sep 2012]
Living Diagrams - Supply and Demand in Action! [21 Sep 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: UK Productivity Gap Grows [19 Sep 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Prices in Action - Ticket Pricing at Derby County [17 Sep 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Infrastructure Gaps and Development [17 Sep 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Constraints on Growth and Development [17 Sep 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: What Is a Natural Resource Curse? [16 Sep 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Urbanisation in Indian Cities - Challenges and Opportunities [15 Sep 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Development Indicators Top Trumps! [11 Sep 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Developing Countries - Similarities and Differences [10 Sep 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: New to Macro - Kick-starting the British Economy [6 Sep 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Difficult Times for UK Farmers [5 Sep 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Market Power in International Parcels [4 Sep 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Helium Shortage might be a Party Pooper [27 Aug 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Recommended Sites for Teachers [24 Aug 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Regulated and Unregulated Train Fares [21 Aug 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Rising Wages and Demand for Robotics [20 Aug 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Brazil Focuses on 2016 Olympic Investment [14 Aug 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Drought and US Corn Prices [8 Aug 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: India’s Energy Deficit Limits Growth [7 Aug 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Funding for Lending Scheme [19 Jul 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Paul Collier - Development Economist [17 Jul 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: China’s Foreign Currency Reserves [16 Jul 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Savings and Investment in China [14 Jul 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Kenya invests in geothermal energy [14 Jul 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Rapid Wage Inflation in China [13 Jul 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Global Competition in High-Speed Rail Technology [13 Jul 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Fiscal Policy in the UK - A Question of Credibility [12 Jul 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Economics of the Milk Industry [12 Jul 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Economics of the UK Water Industry [11 Jul 2012]
Behavioural Economics: Incentives to Cut Road Congestion [11 Jul 2012]
Environmental Economics: Natural Capital [6 Jul 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Erratic Energy Supplies Threatens Indian Growth [5 Jul 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Inclusive Wealth and Sustainable Development [24 Jun 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: China and Reinventing Innovation [17 Jun 2012]
End Depression Now! Paul Krugman at the LSE [30 May 2012]
Investment in Energy Infrastructure [23 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Cyclical and Structural Economic Issues Facing the UK [23 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Evaluation on Supply-Side Policies [21 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Current Account of the Balance of Payments [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Migration and the UK Economy [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Positive and Negative Multiplier Effects [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Importance of Productivity [20 May 2012]
Q&A: What do we need to know about output gaps? [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Output Gap [20 May 2012]
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