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Debt Crisis Looming for Developing Countries
Larry Elliott writes that the West is starting to wake up to the prospects of a debt crisis in developing economies, having recently shown their ability to react to the collapse of Silicon Valley...
Gender Pay Gap - Men earn more than women in most jobs
The median pay gap in most UK firms has stayed stubbornly consistent at around 9%, and hasn't fallen since 2017/18 when the data was first published, suggesting that the gender pay gap has scarcely...
Air conditioning is increasingly highly demanded but also makes a significant contribution to global warming; so how can we balanced the two. Well, we might not be able to have conventional...
Mohamed El-Erian writes a Project Syndicate column looking at the changing nature of trade in the post-Covid world. He argues that we're moving away from hyperglobalisation, not so much towards...
What are the barriers to economic growth in the UK?
Here is another good video assessment of some of the barriers to economic growth in the UK. Sky's Paul Kelso travels to Cambridge and Rochdale and speaks to businesses, workers and politicians...
Soaring Child Care Costs and a Widening Gender Pay Gap - Sobering Labour Market Economics
Here is another stark reflection on the impact of high cost childcare on both female participation in the labour force and household finances. The fact that childcare costs have risen by 44% since...
New Resources on Development Economics
Five new videos have been added to our Development Economics playlist. This includes revision blast videos on debt relief and the economics of buffer stock schemes.
True Scale of Plastic Pollution in the Oceans is Revealed
A new study finds that estimates of the scale of plastic pollution in the world's oceans has been vastly underestimated. The trillions of plastic particles weigh roughly 2.4 million metric tonnes...
Money Minders: Central Banks and their roles in an economy
Here is a video of a talk given by Professor Jagjit Chadha to the Marshall Economics Society at Cambridge in March 2023. It covers the roles central banks play in the world today and how they...
Cash transfers have become one of the main social protection tools in the developing world. This short topic video looks at the debate over the effectiveness of cash transfer programmes in low and...
This Economist clip looks at the recent American fiscal stimulus programme, via a package designed to boost private sector investment, especially in green infrastructure and chipmaking. and to...
Economic Development - Why is Africa Poor?
Economic historian Nathan Nunn asks this question in the first of a new series of videos on aspects of economic development produced by Discover Economics and the CAGE Research Centre
Using Economies of Scale in Exam Analysis
I've just added a couple of short topic videos walking through analysis diagrams showing how economies of scale can impact on business profits and consumer surplus.
India - Barriers to Growth in the World's most Populous Country
This in an interesting article, highlighting the fact that India is now the most populous nation in the world, and potentially the source of massive growth in the next few years.
Inequality - Incomes of richest 1% in the USA surge
Both during and after the pandemic, there has been a dramatic upsurge in the share of income going to the richest one per cent of people in the USA according to new data. The top 1% share now far...
Economies of Scale - How Singapore Airlines Makes 19 Million Meals a Year
How to make 50,000 meals a day and take into account the fact that food can taste different in the sky?
Time to rethink how the World Bank operates
One for Year 13 economists. Larry Elliott looks here at the future of the World Bank in the aftermath and asks the pertinent question about whether an institution that emerged in the aftermath of...
International Competitiveness & Supply-side Policies
In our revision blast session last week, we looked at measures of competitiveness and focused on macro and micro supply-side policies that might help improve the UK's relative standings in...
Should home insulation in the UK be subsidised?
Improving the energy efficiency of the UK’s ageing housing stock has become increasingly important considering increasing energy prices - how strong is the case for government financial support to...
The UK Hand Car Wash Market
You'll find plenty of hand car wash businesses dotted around the towns and cities of the UK. The hand car wash industry has come under increasing criticism in recent years both in terms of...