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What are the implications of borrowing money from China?
Sustainable Farming - Challenges for Indian Farming
This World Bank clip looks at sustainability, and how climate change is impacting Indian agriculture.
This is an important development clip - looking at the value added at different stages of cocoa production.
The Bloomberg video looks at the implications of China's commitment to net zero by 2060, and how it will have to reshape its energy infrastructure to be able to achieve this ambitious goal.
This is an important clip to help understanding China's engagement in Africa, and one that looks to dispel the myth of the Chinese 'debt trap'.
This Business Insider clip looks at how one innovative Indian firm is recycling banana plant waste into sanitary towels.
Innovation and Environmental Impact - Can new innovations reduce beer’s water usage?
This clip is gold dust for students revising negative and positive externalities from production!
Unemployment Policy in the UK - Way to Work forces jobseekers to widen their job search net
There's been an important change in UK unemployment policy, with the introduction of a scheme known as Way to Work.
Robotics and Logistics - Economies of Scale in Action!
You might consider this clip as an example of technological innovation, or, perhaps and example of economies of scale.
Development Barriers - Asymmetric Impact of Climate Change
This Guardian article highlights the asymmetric effects of climate change, looking at 10 under-reported climate crises and how the affect the developing world.
Wolmar makes the case for UK rail nationalisation
Leading railway author, Christian Wolmar, writes in the Guardian making the case for the re-nationalisation of the railways.
Externalities - The Human Cost of Marine and Traffic Pollution
Many teachers covering the negative externalities from pollution might want to use these short video and audio clips as part of their course.
Red Bull sells 8 billion cars a year but manufactures none of them
Red Bull sells eight billion cans of their energy drinks each year but it doesn't manufacture any drinks at all!
Development Economics - Building Environmental Resilience
Here are a couple of video clips looking at how low and middle income countries can build resilience in the face of severe environmental pressures.
China and the Global Economy: 20 Years on from Accession to the WTO
Faisal Islam writes about how 20 years ago, the admission of China to the World Trade Organisation altered economic gravity for good.
Renewable Energy - Why Wind Turbines Blades Are So Hard to Recycle
This Business Insider clip highlights the fact that there's an odd state of affairs in the renewable energy market.
Circular Economy - the companies making stuff from CO2
This article highlights how some innovative firms are generating value from carbon, including vodka, diamonds and active leisurewear.
Fiscal Policy - Should Inheritance Tax be Reformed?
This FT clip looks at the possibility of governments introducing increased inheritance taxes - a contentious issue.
Sustainable growth - meeting welfare needs within planetary boundaries
Nations are overusing natural resources faster than they are meeting basic human needs
Infrastructure and Development in Burkina Faso
It seems that Burkina Faso has solved some of its toughest problems in relation to its digital infrastructure.