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1 Jan 2016
Global Economic Forecasts for 2016
This blog provides a curation of economic forecasts and analysis for the Global Economy in 2016
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1 Jan 2016
Small Is Beautiful - The Rise of Craft Brewing
Craft brewing has grown at astonishingly rapid rates over the last few years. Microbreweries and micropubs are springing up across the UK, and craft brewing is huge in the USA. Already some craft...
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29 Dec 2015
An alternative to urban sweatshops grows in Cambodia
There is plenty of pertinent development economics in this piece from the Guardian. There is an alternative model to urban sweat-shops. Consider for example the long term importance of the...
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28 Dec 2015
2015 Human Development Report focuses on the changing nature of Work
Sustainable inclusive growth requires equitable and decent work for all as explained in this very accessible introduction to the 2015 Human Development Report published in December 2015. The HDI...
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28 Dec 2015
World Economy in 2015 - Review Articles
A curation of articles looking back on key developments in the world economy in 2015 is available here
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28 Dec 2015
China fines shipping firms for price fixing
The 2008 Chinese competition act is being used with increasing frequency to target price-fixing agreements in a number of industries including telecoms, dairy and shipping. The main aim seems to be...
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28 Dec 2015
The Social Cost of Rapid Urbanisation - China's Left Behind Kids
For tens of millions of China's rural adult population, participating in the benefits of economic growth means migrating to the prosperous urban areas. However, in doing so they have left over 60...
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27 Dec 2015
Will oil prices rise in 2016?
The collapse in world oil prices since the summer of 2014 has been one of the big economic stories of the last eighteen months.The current low price is not high enough to stimulate the investment...
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26 Dec 2015
How should the BBC present economic data?
A very interesting post from Professor Simon Wren-Lewis of Oxford University discussing aspects of how data such as real growth per capita, government debt levels and employment rates could be...
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16 Dec 2015
Richard Branson on COP21 and Heathrow Airport (and possible conflicts!)
We're in the finishing stages of putting together the booklets and presentations for our student revision events (click here to book your places) and it is difficult to talk about current stories...
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16 Dec 2015
Oil Prices Continue to Slide - So What?
A timely short video here from Anjli Raval from the FT highlighting the continued slide in oil prices. Useful background for all AS & A2 students.
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16 Dec 2015
A Level Economics CDP Course Material Offer
We're just back from a really enjoyable and busy programme of A Level Economics CPD this term! Now it's time to clear the decks and get ready for a busy Spring and Summer term. So we've decided to...
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15 Dec 2015
Regulation of Bankers' Bonuses - information from the latest Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin
If you caught Geoff's webinar in conjunction with the Bank of England on 4th November you will be aware that we're very excited about the partnership developing between tutor2u and the BoE. The BoE...
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15 Dec 2015
Christmas jerseys: a great intellectual challenge
What would you buy Jeremy Corbyn for Christmas? Printable answers only, please. But somehow, a Christmas jumper seems appropriate. It would match the 1980s-style shell suit he wore the other day....
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15 Dec 2015
The importance of Central Bank credibility
A recent Gallup Poll shows that only one third of Americans think that the Federal Reserve (the US Central Bank) is doing a good job, and this isn't helped by politicians in the extreme right of...
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14 Dec 2015
Is Christmas getting cheaper? Inflation, elasticity and austerity
This fabulous BBC iWonder interactive graphic examining the cost of Christmas is packed as full as an M&S mince pie with super economics. In real terms, your Christmas dinner this year will be...
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14 Dec 2015
Do preferential trade agreements harm excluded countries?
Agreements to liberalise trade between groups of countries will boost wages in the partner countries but harm third countries excluded from the agreement. That is the central finding of research by...
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14 Dec 2015
Demographic transition? Rising wealth can cause population to grow
Higher national income growth leads to increases in countries’ population growth. That is the central message of research by Professors Markus Brückner and Hannes Schwandt, published in the...
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14 Dec 2015
Can migrant workers help overcome Dutch Disease?
The negative effects of a regional resource boom on the local manufacturing sector – a phenomenon that economists call ‘Dutch disease’ – can be partly mitigated by the arrival of temporary foreign...
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14 Dec 2015
The difficulties of supply-side infrastructure decisions
David Cameron's decision to delay his verdict on whether to expand Heathrow has been widely derided in the press. Even Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF, whilst praising Britain's...
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