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Challenges facing the UK Steel Industry

Geoff Riley

20th October 2015

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This is a curation of resources on the economic difficulties facing the UK steel industry. Plant closures and job losses have dominated the headlines in recent weeks. Is there a sufficiently strong justification for government financial support and other forms of intervention to ease the pain?

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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