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Taking Europe's Pulse

Ruth Tarrant

16th October 2015

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This week's Economist digital edition has an insightful interactive graphic which allows you to "take Europe's pulse", and compare, at a glance, some key macroeconomic indicators including youth unemployment, GDP per capita, budget balances, national debt and economic growth rates.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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