Blog and updates
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24 Aug 2020
Monopsony power: News publishers fight tech giants for better deals
A fascinating story from the digital economy, which highlights the market power of two of the Big Four.
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10 Aug 2020
Coronavirus update: Concentrated global trade in medical products and high import tariffs
Research from the World Trade Organisation highlights the concentrated nature of export supplies of key medical products.
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6 Aug 2020
Regulating emissions: Should ads for large polluting vehicles be banned?
Environmentalists are arguing that the government should ban adverts for large cars, such as SUVs, because every car sold makes it less likely that the UK will meet its climate change commitments.
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5 Aug 2020
How Green Power is Driving Rural Africa
Here is a fantastic developmental clip looking at a small-scale project in rural Kenya.
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3 Aug 2020
Coronavirus update: Globalised Singapore drops into deep downturn
No country however successful in years past, is immune from the impact of the pandemic.
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1 Aug 2020
Coronavirus update: European Airlines suffer heavy losses during the pandemic
The aviation sector is among those worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
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31 Jul 2020
Camera firm Kodak pivots to drugs to fight virus.
Former camera giants, Kodak, have started to manufacture the ingredients required for generic drugs. As have Fuji Film.
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31 Jul 2020
Coronavirus update: Rents – a heavy burden on firms as revenues shrink
Rents that businesses pay on leased property is usually treated as a fixed cost.
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30 Jul 2020
China's Belt and Road Policy - Should the West Worry?
The Telegraph looks at the expansion of China's Belt and Road policy and its acquisition of stakes in ports across the globe, and the implications of this for the global economy.
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30 Jul 2020
Coronavirus update: Businesses Cut Jobs as Demand Falls Away
The recession caused by the pandemic has inevitably led to a steep fall in demand, revenues and profits for most UK businesses.
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29 Jul 2020
Why debt sustainability will be a crucial issue in the years ahead
Debt is a fascinating, and often misunderstood concept. Debt is not bad 'per se', it can foster development and ensure sustainable growth for both current and future generations.
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29 Jul 2020
Coronavirus update: Decades of development progress are at risk
The World Bank is forecasting that the covid-19 crisis will lead to a reduction in per capita incomes for 90 per cent of countries around the world.
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28 Jul 2020
Coronavirus update: Tourist-dependent countries hit hard by the global pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has shown how hard some countries have been hit by a collapse in overseas tourist travel.
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27 Jul 2020
Coronavirus update: The rapid rise of digital platform businesses
For some platform businesses, the pandemic has accelerated expansion leading to surging users and customers whilst giving revenues and share valuations a sizeable boost.
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25 Jul 2020
Coronavirus update: Supply shocks and risks of economic scarring
The coronavirus outbreak and the public health measures taken to contain it delivered one of the largest ever shocks to the UK economy leading to a sudden and large inward shift of short run...
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24 Jul 2020
Coronavirus update: How high will unemployment rise in 2020?
At the end of 2019, a number of economists were starting to forecast that the UK economy was closing in on reaching full employment. But the pandemic has changed all that very quickly and Britain...
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23 Jul 2020
Coronavirus update: Are there risks of deflation?
With the world economy in recession - The IMF forecasts global growth at –4.9 percent in 2020-and with many individual countries experiencing much deeper downturns than this (including the UK), how...
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22 Jul 2020
Coronavirus update: Will the crisis make some markets less contestable?
The coronavirus pandemic will undoubtedly have an impact on the market structures of many industries.
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21 Jul 2020
Coronavirus update: Are vaccines public goods?
Too what extent can and should we regard the manufacturing and deployment of a covid-19 vaccine as a public good?
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20 Jul 2020
Marshall’s insights into the benefits of agglomeration still hold true.
Alfred Marshall created the idea of agglomeration economies. Are they at risk in many towns and cities as workers show reluctance to return to offices?
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