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How should the BBC present economic data?

Geoff Riley

26th December 2015

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A very interesting post from Professor Simon Wren-Lewis of Oxford University discussing aspects of how data such as real growth per capita, government debt levels and employment rates could be covered more intelligently by economics and financial journalists at the BBC. For example the need to express debt levels as a share of national output or as a percentage of income rather than the "media friendly" but faintly pointless debt clocks that often appear on screens! Click here to read the article

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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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