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Private sector debt will likely cause the next crisis
This month of course saw the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehmann Brothers, which precipitated one of the only two global financial crises of the past 150 years. The late 2000s and the early...
Intra-Regional Trade: A Challenge for South Asia
This World Bank clip looks at the relatively low level of intra-regional trade in South Asia and suggests that the countries of the region should be doing three times the trade that they currently...
Empowering women as a driving force for development
The IMF looks at why empowering women is a good thing for development: it's relatively simple. Women represent more than 50% of the potential workforce and increasing female education also reduces...
Stepping back to 2008
This excellent programme was broadcast on Saturday night on BBC Radio 4 and traces events surrounding the causes of global financial crisis. It is made up of extracts from archive BBC material and...
History Repeating: The Financial Crisis 10 Years On
Adam Parsons from Sky News has this special report from New York, a decade on from the collapse of Lehman.
Financial Crisis Explained: 4 Short FT Videos
Hats off to the Financial Times for producing this series of short videos discussing aspects of the global financial crisis. Superb for new students wanting to bring their historical knowledge up...
Health care spending in the UK
Here are some links to the scale and pattern of health-care spending in the UK economy.
Think Tank calls for major reforms of the UK economy
The IPPR Commission on Economic Justice has found that the UK is being held back by a number of weaknesses, not least a lack of investment, and high levels of inequality and has proposed a number...
Should We Nationalise the Water Industry?
A timely and pertinent discussion on the future for the water industry. Faiza Shaheen and Robert Colvile discuss on BBC Newsnight whether water companies should remain privatised or become...
How effective is aid in promoting economic growth and targeting extreme poverty reduction?
Transport Gaps and Barriers to Finding Work
A new and important report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds that people in low-income neighbourhoods are willing to travel to work but find commuting options constrained by unaffordable or...
Poverty’s Impact on Well-being
A recent (BBC) Panorama programme focused on the chasm in years of healthy life expectancy within regions of the UK. It makes for difficult viewing but raises really important issues for public...
Economic Benefits from Regulation
Many students are taught and/or implicitly assume that deregulation is a supply-side policy designed to unleash innovation, drive market entry and stimulate growth. In this piece for Project...
How migrant networks can stimulate trade
Following the 1994 lifting of US trade sanctions against Vietnam, the share of US exports going to its former enemy was higher and more diversified in states with larger populations of Vietnamese...
At a time when fights over migration are dividing rich countries and fracturing their politics, a study published in the Economic Journal sheds light on a ‘path not taken’.
Impact of remittances on growth and poverty
The recent surge in remittances from migrant workers to their native countries may be overestimated, according to research by Michael Clemens and David McKenzie, published in the Economic Journal.
The Economic Benefits of Clustering
Here is a superb article on the growth of the life sciences and agricultural technologies industries in and around Cambridge - a tremendous example to use of the benefits of agglomeration...
JRF launches new Minimum Income Standard
What do the public think people need to earn to reach acceptable living standards? The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has launched their new minimum income standard and find that minimum household...
Iceland grows forests for first time in 1,000 years
A positive story here of the challenges and opportunities that come with a focused strategy of reforestation in Iceland. This in the week when we discovered that satellite data shows the world has...
Growth versus the environment: deforestation
The growth versus the environment debate is great for opening a thoughtful discussion about the net benefits of economic growth. Some participants take what might be described as a Kuznets Curve...