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15 May 2015
China to invest $50bn in Brazil infrastructure
This is one of those take-note economics news stories. The Chinese government is set to confirm plans for a multi-billion dollar infrastructure investment plan with Brazil as part of a long term...
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15 May 2015
Inclusive Growth Rankings for Asian Economies
Translating gains in real GDP into tangible and sustainable improvements in development outcomes is one of the major challenges facing all developing countries. In recent years there has been...
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15 May 2015
Industrialisation in Africa
Economics coverage of Africa can be a bit bleak, although perhaps they shouldn't be, with incomes rising rapidly in parts of Africa. There tends to be lots of focus on problems, such as primary...
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15 May 2015
Can poorer countries follow China's growth model?
Most development economists stress the crucial role typically played by industrialisation as a trigger to economic growth and development. Export led growth, built on rising manufacturing has...
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15 May 2015
Supply-side policy: stricter laws on strike action
The new Business Secretary Sajid Javid has talked openly about how he intends to push through new legislation on strike action in the UK. The plan will be to insist that a higher proportion of the...
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14 May 2015
Mark Carney on the Today programme
Following Wednesday's lower unemployment figures, and the Bank of England's lowering of growth expectations for 2015, Mark Carney was interviewed on the Today programme this morning, and gave a...
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14 May 2015
The Best Nudge of All?
The rise of 'libertarian paternalism' in the public domain has been one of the characteristics of recent thinking about how to resolve market failures. It has been applied to all sorts of...
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13 May 2015
Opinion Polls, Financial Crashes and Groupthink
The election is done and dusted, but many interesting questions remain. Was there a swing to the Conservatives at the very last minute, or was it indeed possible to foresee the victory in advance?...
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13 May 2015
Why China's economic slowdown matters
The Chinese economy is in a transition phase to a period of slower and (hopefully) more balanced growth. This matters for China, her trade and investment partners and pretty much the whole of the...
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13 May 2015
Whistl Suspends Deliveries
Whistl, the postal services company targeting the Royal Mail in delivering letters in city centre locations has announced that, due to the pulling of private equity funding, they are suspending...
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12 May 2015
Possible causes and effects of slow wage growth
There's some evidence that inequality may be rising, and in most places the recession that followed the financial crisis had dire effects on wages. According to the Economist, despite five years of...
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12 May 2015
Australia illustrates problems of primary product dependency
Australia is very exposed to the risks associated with an export sector dominated by exports of commodity items. Economists know the price of commodities tend to be highly volatile. Rising...
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10 May 2015
Natural resources - what is the sea worth?
As the WWF releases a report on the economic value of the world's oceans, BBC News looks at their findings, and the value of auditing nature
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10 May 2015
8 Reasons for Fast Growth and Development in the Asian Region
Takehiko Nakao is president of the Asian Development Bank and in this blog he outlines his chosen eight factors behind rapid economic growth and development in the Asian continent. Asia is making...
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10 May 2015
China at the Lewis Turning Point
The demographic dividend that has supported rapid Chinese economic growth is coming to an end.
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10 May 2015
India's quest for reliable education continues
This FT video from the heart of rural India is revealing in many different ways. More parents are taking their students out of state schools and sending them to the mushrooming private system, but...
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7 May 2015
The Subtle Costs of a Mansion Tax
An exciting email pinged into my inbox at the end of last week. It was a link to the contents of the latest issue of the American Economic Association's journal 'Economic Policy'. For most people...
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2 May 2015
Economics Teacher National Conference 2015
Our annual Economics Teacher National Conference takes place at the Wellcome Foundation Conference Centre, Euston, London on Monday 22nd June. The superbly appointed venue is just a few minutes...
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2 May 2015
Economic Impact of Nepal's Earthquake
The earthquake that has hit Nepal is a prime example of the human and economic cost of natural disasters for a vulnerable country. This blog will bring together some news resources on the issue.
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30 Apr 2015
Policy Analysis of Key 2015 Election Issues
The LSE has produced this detailed analysis of some of the key economic issues in the 2015 General Election. Might be worth downloading for extension and enrichment reading for ambitious students.
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