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10 Mar 2016
Why the Euro Zone Might Not Survive the Next Recession
A bearish scenario is played out here by Neville Hill, Credit Suisse chief euro-zone economist but it is a perspective worth considering. The Euro Zone is a long way from being an optimal currency...
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10 Mar 2016
India: New Roads Lift Productivity
Inadequate infrastructure holds many countries back from fulfilling their growth and development potential. Nowhere is this more true than in India but new research finds that large-scale...
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10 Mar 2016
Competition and Markets Authority Report on UK Energy Market (2016)
This blog curates resources on theMarch 2016 Competition and Markets Authority report into low contestability in the UK energy market.
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10 Mar 2016
Planning restraints keep London house prices higher
This won't come as much of a surprise to seasoned watchers of the South East property market but fresh research reinforces the widely-held belief that restrictive planning systems have been a key...
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10 Mar 2016
Business Growth: Hotel Chocolat Plans a Floatation
One of my favourite businesses Hotel Chocolat is using the AIM market for a share listing because of the lower costs of raising fresh equity. Some of the funds will help purchase a cocoa plantation...
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10 Mar 2016
Has the ECB shot their last bazooka?
There was a surprise monetary policy move by the European Central Bank (ECB) today with the announcement of extra quantitative easing, a move to buying corporate as well as government debt,...
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10 Mar 2016
EU Non Tariff Barriers limiting development in Ghana
Whilst the European Union may be reducing some import tariffs and quotas on agricultural items imported from outside the EU, it is also increasing many of the regulations governing the nature of...
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10 Mar 2016
Beyond the Bike - Fair Trade lesson ideas
Supporting Stuart's blog post this week on fair trade, here is a selection of RES-supported lesson resources on fair trade, and links to some super talks and clips on fair trade.
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9 Mar 2016
Brexit: Britain's Major Export Products and Markets
Here is a smart graphic from our friends at Statista. According to data from the Office of National Statistics, over half of British exports go to countries in the European Union. In 2015,...
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9 Mar 2016
Digitally Disrupted GDP
Gross Domestic Product: three words that can decide elections, influence political decisions, and determine whether a country can keep borrowing or will be thrown into recession. Economist Diane...
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9 Mar 2016
Air pollution may be harming your fantasy league ranking!
Air pollution is responsible for harming footballers’ performance. That is the main finding of research by Andreas Lichter, Nico Pestel and Eric Sommer presented at the Royal Economic Society’s...
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9 Mar 2016
Why have wages stagnated in many developed countries
Unemployment rates have seen a welcome fall in many developed countries as economies have recovered from the last recession. But for millions of people, the real value of pay packets has been flat...
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9 Mar 2016
The End of the Chinese Economic Miracle
This is a totally must-see short 15 minute film from the Financial Times. China's economic miracle is under threat from a slowing economy and a dwindling labour force. The Financial times...
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9 Mar 2016
How does the 1% live?
I really like this photo collection from the Washington Post showing how the 1% live - the images on the website are taken from the book "Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality" by Myles Little,...
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9 Mar 2016
Crises of capitalism
This is a super enrichment video from the RSAnimate series on the Crises of Capitalism, based on a talk by David Harvey. It's from 2010, but still worth a watch for 10 minutes!
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9 Mar 2016
The IMF under the spotlight
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played a prominent role in world financial affairs in the post-Second World War period. In the 1950s and 1960s, its main purpose was to support the system...
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8 Mar 2016
Edexcel Economics Unit 3 A2 Micro Paper: Explain and Evaluate a Change in Company Profits - Applying a Real-World Scenario
As an Edexcel economics student, you'll be very familiar with a common question in the Unit 3 A2 micro paper data response section where you're asked to explain and evaluate a change in company...
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8 Mar 2016
Snacks on a plane
Many of us have probably assumed this for years, but now a study has been carried out showing just how high the profit margins are for budget airlines on the onboard snacks. Flybe's markup on...
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7 Mar 2016
The IMF's assessment of women's impact on business
This great 1 minute infographic-style clip from the IMF outlines the possible economic impact of replacing men with women in senior positions in business across Europe.
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7 Mar 2016
Essay: Britain outside the Euro - good for the economy?
Here is an example of a student essay on this question: Evaluate the argument that the UK's relative economic performance has benefitted from remaining outside of the Euro since it was launched in...
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