Blog and updates
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17 Dec 2021
Monetary Policy - Bank of England raises interest rates from 0.1% to 0.25%
The Bank of England has raised the base rate from 0.1% to 0.25% - a signal that they are prepared to tackle rising inflation.
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15 Dec 2021
Development Economics - Building Environmental Resilience
Here are a couple of video clips looking at how low and middle income countries can build resilience in the face of severe environmental pressures.
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15 Dec 2021
How Airlines Quietly Became Banks
How do airlines make money? Increasingly, it isn't by flying.
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15 Dec 2021
Duopoly and Competition Policy - Apple and Google duopoly limits competition and choice
Much interest today in a new report on Apple and Google duopolistic dominance of the smartphone market in the UK.
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14 Dec 2021
Horizontal Integration - National Express seals takeover of rival Stagecoach
A horizontal merger has been agreed between National Express and Stagecoach, creating a proposed company with a fleet of 40,000 vehicles and 70,000 employees.
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14 Dec 2021
Labour Market - UK Job Vacancies Reach New High of 1.2 million
Have we reached full employment? What even is full employment?
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14 Dec 2021
Development Economics - Vending Machines and Retailing in Kenya
CK Prahalad wrote about "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" and this is a lovely example of where it exists.
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12 Dec 2021
Elasticity of Labour Supply - HGV Skills Bootcamp
An insight here into the price elasticity of supply of lorry drivers, with the government's HGV HGV Skills Bootcamp programme having seen its funding double to try and reduce the shortfall of HGV...
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12 Dec 2021
China and the Global Economy: 20 Years on from Accession to the WTO
Faisal Islam writes about how 20 years ago, the admission of China to the World Trade Organisation altered economic gravity for good.
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12 Dec 2021
Renewable Energy - Why Wind Turbines Blades Are So Hard to Recycle
This Business Insider clip highlights the fact that there's an odd state of affairs in the renewable energy market.
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9 Dec 2021
Circular Economy - the companies making stuff from CO2
This article highlights how some innovative firms are generating value from carbon, including vodka, diamonds and active leisurewear.
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9 Dec 2021
Globalisation - Lego to build $1bn factory in Vietnam
Lego has decided to invest in Vietnam on the back of double digit economic growth in the region in the past two years.
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8 Dec 2021
Festive Lesson Quiz Pack 2021 - GCSE Economics
Here is a subject-specific PowerPoint-based quiz to use in the last few days of a challenging term! Each quiz uses a set of our ever-popular livestream activities all packaged up in a festive theme!
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8 Dec 2021
Investment and Economic Growth - Super-deduction drives surge in UK business investment
Here is an excellent read for Year 12 macroeconomics students. UK business investment is expected to rebound strongly in 2022.
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8 Dec 2021
Price Mechanism - World Coffee Prices Hit 10-Year High
A late year surge in demand allied to worsening supply problems have come together to drive coffee prices to a decade-long high.
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7 Dec 2021
Chinese Economy - Evergrande teeters
The Chinese government has stepped in to announce increases in business lending and to build more affordable property.
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7 Dec 2021
African Continental Free Trade Area - Africa's patchy transport network gets a tech boost
This BBC article looks at the prospects for a more co-ordinated transport infrastructure across Africa.
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7 Dec 2021
Circular economy - the companies making stuff from CO2
The circular economy is an increasingly prominent part of the wider economy and this article highlights how some innovative firms are generating value from carbon, including vodka, diamonds and...
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6 Dec 2021
Christmas Lesson Quiz Pack 2021 - A-Level Economics (Year 13)
Here are two subject-specific PowerPoint-based quizzes to use in the last few days of a challenging term! Each quiz uses a set of our ever-popular livestream activities all packaged up in a festive...
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6 Dec 2021
Christmas Lesson Quiz Pack 2021 - A-Level Economics (Year 12)
Here are two subject-specific PowerPoint-based quizzes to use in the last few days of a challenging term! Each quiz uses a set of our ever-popular livestream activities all packaged up in a festive...
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