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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...
Interest Rates and Aggregate Demand and Supply
With central banks in many countries including the UK and the USA raising policy interest rates, we have added two short topic videos to our reference section on how increased interest rates might...
This clip highlights the adoption of new technology in the pizza industry, looking at how Domino's have automated production, lowering their costs, and changing the nature of work in the sector. A...
Sustainable Development - World Bank Videos on Sustainable Fishing
The World Bank has posted a number of videos looking at different examples of over-fishing, and the policy solutions developed in response. It is a veritable treasure trove of material relating to...
Economic Update - Developments in the UK Economy (Feb 2023)
In the latest of our regular updates on the UK, we bring you up to speed to what is happening with growth, inflation, jobs and interest rates. The Bank of England is now forecasting a shallower...
How can water be saved and recycled at home?
Economics is fundamentally about how to best use scarce resources. This BBC video clip from "Click" looks at how we can recycle water, increasing sustainability, with Dutch company Hydroloop at the...
Underemployment - How Benefit Reforms Push People into Low-Paid Jobs
This sort of thing is seen by many as peripheral - and in one sense it is - but in another it's a fundamental problem with current labour markets, and may contribute to rising in-work poverty....
Economic Development - Can Sri Lanka trade its way back to prosperity?
A nation close to my heart, where many friends still live; the fate of Sri Lanka will always affect me, and the latest Newsnight coverage of the island's financial crisis is salutary.