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8 Oct 2015
Job Losses in the UK Solar Panel Industry
This article is not so much about redundancies in the solar panel installation market, but the fact that investors in the market for renewables and so forth have little clarity because of the...
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8 Oct 2015
Unsustainable growth degrades Asia's land
This is a superb photo blog from the Asian Development Bank that will provide a rich source of images when teaching sustainability issues and limits to growth and development for emerging...
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8 Oct 2015
Beyond the Bike lesson resources - aid and savings
I highly recommend reading Stuart's blog on aid this week, written in Tanzania following his journey in recent weeks through Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC. If you want to use this blog as a...
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7 Oct 2015
Evaluate the consequences for the global economy of the Chinese economic slowdown
In this excellent essay, Trenton Bricken explores some of the likely impact of a slowdown in the Chinese economy.
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7 Oct 2015
London home to a fifth of the UK's businesses
If don't want to see the North-South divide, look away now", as the Saturday evening news might suggest. That statement itself strikes me as anachronistic: the rise of the Internet means most...
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7 Oct 2015
CEO compensation and Jamaican demands for reparations: two sides of the same coin
David Cameron’s visit to Jamaica last week led to vociferous demands for the UK to pay the Caribbean island billions of pounds in reparations for slavery. Most people here reacted with predictable...
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6 Oct 2015
Unintended consequences of the 5p bag charge
In the weeks prior to the introduction of the 5p bag charge in England, major supermarket chains decided to stock up on wire shopping baskets, with one chain reportedly purchasing an additional...
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6 Oct 2015
Global Goals are set to address poverty and underdevelopment
You may have seen the wonderful news from the World Bank, who have said that for the first time less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015. "We...
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5 Oct 2015
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is Sealed!
A significant development in the history of international trade. The US, Japan and 10 other Pacific rim countries have signed a controversial and sweeping trade agreement that covers about 40% of...
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5 Oct 2015
Extreme Poverty Rate Falls Below 10%
The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015. The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90...
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5 Oct 2015
Local councils to keep business rate revenues
George Osborne's address to the Conservative Party Conference has flagged up a number of interesting economic ideas - not least this one, implying a devolution of power from the centre, with local...
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5 Oct 2015
Dissecting the Commodity Price Meltdown
Roger Bootle writes here on commodity prices: blending micro- and macroeconomics. And, in a nutshell, that's one of the joys of the subject - the fact that in order to do it well, you need to grasp...
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4 Oct 2015
A ‘nudge’ to reduce plastic bag use
This week large retailers in England will have to charge at least 5p per bag (in Scotland and Wales the levy already exists). What will be the impact?
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2 Oct 2015
Read All About It! Topical News quiz for your Economics Students
Here's a topical Economics quiz for your students, using news stories from the past week. Hopefully, your students are regularly keeping up to date with what is going on in the real world and this...
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2 Oct 2015
Brazilian coffee farmers look to move up market
Development economics students - please read this article! A group of Brazilian farmers are trying to make their product less vulnerable to volatile global coffee prices by taking their coffee up...
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2 Oct 2015
Uber faces UK regulatory review
The 'creative destruction' associated with the emergence of Uber has created all sorts of great economics stories - is it promoting efficiency, what about its impact on the traditional black cab,...
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1 Oct 2015
Beyond the Bike - conflict minerals and smartphones
This week Stuart and Claire dipped into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with their bikes. In particular, they were interested in exploring the start of the supply chain for raw materials...
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30 Sept 2015
Um Bongo: a spotlight on modern social and economic behaviour
Readers who either had young children or were children themselves in the 1980s will recall the Um Bongo jingle. The advert assured us it was drunk in the Congo. A survey published last week to mark...
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29 Sept 2015
Mazzucato's Manifesto!
Mariana's Manifesto! Mariana Mazzucato is undoubtedly one of the economists of the moment. Her 2013 book The Entrepreneurial State is pretty much required reading I think for ambitious sixth form...
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29 Sept 2015
Eight radical tax ideas for cash-strapped finance ministers!
An almost perfect article to use for classroom discussion! Take the role of a cash-strapped finance minister and rank these eight ideas for raising extra tax revenues. How well does each perform...
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