The price of water for Peru's poorest
Those in deepest poverty in Peru pay way more for each litre of water than the rich. Extreme poverty is absent in Peru if the World Bank data is to be believed. The reality on the ground tells a...
New Version of Observatory of Economic Complexity
Happy days - the latest version of the Observatory of Economic Complexity is now available online and the world of economics teaching immediately becomes a brighter place! There is simple no better...
Metro Bank moves towards a £1bn Stockmarket Listing
With only 35 branches (concentrated in the south east of England) and over 530,000 customer accounts, Metro Bank is not exactly shaking the UK retail banking industry to its roots. But the...
Ending Peruvian Poverty
John Authers reports for the Financial Times from the World Bank meetings in Lima on how declining commodity prices are affecting the challenge of poverty reduction in countries such as Peru whose...
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...
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...
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...
In this excellent essay, Trenton Bricken explores some of the likely impact of a slowdown in the Chinese economy.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?
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...
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...
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,...