Blog and updates
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9 Feb 2020
Rising obesity as a barrier to development
An interesting World Bank clip looking at the global prevalence of obesity, not least in low and middle-income countries, and the implications of this for development.
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8 Feb 2020
Did Apple slow down their old iPhones?
Really interesting regulation story here emanating from France, where the authorities have fined Apple for not providing consumers with information that they 'slowed down' old iPhones.
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8 Feb 2020
Number of UK workers living in poverty rises for third straight year
The latest Joseph Rowntree Foundation report makes for grim reading: more than one in five people in the UK live in poverty.
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6 Feb 2020
Fuel from faeces - Kenyan innovation to address deforestation
Recycling of the first order, the circular economy, environmentally-friendly, health enhancing, and developmentally beneficial. A Kenyan social enterprise Sanivation is producing fuel out of faeces...
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6 Feb 2020
Contestable Markets: The Battle for Dominance in Cloud Gaming
Who said this today? "When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a tonne of respect for them, but we see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward"
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4 Feb 2020
New Economic Thinking: Inequality - The Bigger Picture
What can be done to address global poverty and inequality? Arjun Jayadev and Branko Milanovic discuss possible policy solutions to inequality, including opening borders and raising taxes on capital...
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4 Feb 2020
New Economic Thinking: What is happening to Inequality Now?
In the 4th lecture in a series of 5, Branko Milanovic continues his exploration of global inequality into the contemporary neoliberal era.
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4 Feb 2020
New Economic Thinking: Inequality - What is Happening?
In the third lecture in a series of five, Branko Milanovic explores how the industrial revolution created widening inequality between different countries.
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4 Feb 2020
New Economic Thinking: How Do We Measure Inequality?
Here is the second lecture in the series of five on the economics of inequality. Arjun Jayadev explains the relative merits of different ways of measuring inequality.
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4 Feb 2020
New Economic Thinking: Inequality - Why Should We Care?
This is going to be a truly fabulous enrichment resource for students and teachers - a new 5-part series on global income inequality
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4 Feb 2020
Why US economists are obsessed with 'Japanification'
We have been discussing Japan in economics classes when looking at the impact of deflation. This FT video is timely.
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31 Jan 2020
Economics Weekly Quiz 31 January 2020
Here's this week's economics news quiz. Good luck!
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31 Jan 2020
Can Mozambique close their rural infrastructure gap?
The discovery and extraction of liquified natural gas has the potential to raise Mozambique's trend economic growth rate from 3% to 5% but this natural resource endowment is no guarantee of...
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30 Jan 2020
Tutor2u Development Economics Resource Update (2020)
We now have seven updated growth and development country profiles available for teachers and students.
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30 Jan 2020
Regulatory failure in the UK electricity industry
A case of regulator pitched against regulator, with the National Audit Office suggesting that lenient regulation of electricity network providers has seen consumers overpaying for their electricity.
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30 Jan 2020
Indonesia’s Aspiring Middle Class
The rise of an aspirant middle-class is a sure sign of economic development and this World Bank clip looks at how almost half of all Indonesians are now in that bracket.
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30 Jan 2020
Wonderful footage of Keynes discussing the Gold Standard!
Bob Denham and his team at Econ Films have tweeted wonderful footage of Keynes speaking about the decision to leave the Gold Standard!
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30 Jan 2020
Why Manchester illustrates the challenge of reducing the regional divide
The government needs to deliver for its new supporters in the regions. This is a truth which has rapidly become universally acknowledged, to borrow Jane Austen’s famous phrase.
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29 Jan 2020
Northern Rail is nationalised
The government has confirmed that Arriva will lose their Northern Rail franchisefrom the 1st of March 2020 as the UK government nationalises this part of the UK rail network.
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