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Marine Protected Areas - A Big Success Story in Mexico
Here is a hugely positive example of how protecting natural capital can bring about a transformation of coastal waters from a marine desert into a thriving ecosystem?
How the Fed Works: After the Great Recession
This new video from Marginal Revolution looks at how the United States Federal Reserve (their central bank) has moved to use unconventional tools of monetary policy in a bid to revive the economy...
A village in Kenya is part of a trial with a universal basic income scheme in which all residents are given $20 a month for each of the next twelve years. How are people spending the money? What...
What is Premature Deindustrialization?
Tyler Cowen from Marginal Revolution explores the concept of premature deindustrialisation.
Synoptic Economics: Does FDI raise UK house prices?
Demand from foreign investors has had a significant and positive effect on UK house price growth over the last 15 years, according to research by Filipa Sá presented at the Royal Economic Society's...
Money for Nothing - Will a Basic Income Work?
Ian Stewart from Deloitte offers a personal perspective on the advantages and disadvantages of introducing some form of a basic income scheme.
The World Poverty Clock
The clock is ticking for meeting the 1st of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals - namely eliminating extreme poverty by 2030. The World Poverty Clock is a highly visual tool for gauging what is...
Africa's Free Trade Dream
Can a single market work to increase intra-regional trade within Sub Saharan Africa? Here is a great contextual example to read about and use for Year 13 economists studying trade, growth and...
Information Failure - Topical Examples
Here are some recent articles and news features covering aspects of information failure in markets.
Digital ID and Basic Human Development
The issue of formal identification has become a big World Bank issue, and these clips looks at how ownership of official IDs have significant developmental effects in India and Peru. It's...
Why are footballers paid so much?
Hats off to the Bank of England for producing this excellent article on pay for professional footballers. A super resource to use when teaching pay differentials in the labour market.
Gender pay gap: Part time work hinders wage progression
A new study from the IFSof the causes of the persistent gender pay gap in the UK focuses on the impact of working part-time has on career and wage progression for females.
Plan now because robots will take our jobs
More excellence in the Guardian with Larry Elliott seeing the opening of Amazon Go in Seattle as a foretaste of things to come. He argues that automation is unstoppable and that we need to think...
Lewis Turning Point: Rising Wages and Robot Demand in China
This video from the Wall Street Journal explores the rising demand for industrial robots, particularly in China which is in turn partly the response to fast-rising wages in China as the economy...
Addressing the Infrastructure Gap - New Toll Roads in Senegal
Ed Glaeser often makes the point that introducing early the user-pays principle into infrastructure investment is a key part of the infrastructure jigsaw especially in developing countries. This...
Shaking the Magic Money Tree
Shaking the Magic Money Tree broadcast on Radio 4 looked at the effect of Quantitative Easing on the UK economy. Is it possible to disaggregate its effects, and did it advantage some over others.
The Planet's Biggest Baked Bean Factory
We simply had to cross post this from the Business Blog! A stunning three minute video following the production process of the Heinz baked bean factory in Wigan Lancashire which can supply up to 3...
Obesity: not just a rich-world problem
A new short video from the Economist - providing excellent context and a prompt for classroom discussion.
Economic Development: Vietnam Rising
Here are two new videos from the IMF focusing on growth and development drivers in the fast-growing Vietnamese economy.
Is free trade good or bad?
Andrew Walker has written an excellent article on the benefits and costs of trade - ideal enrichment reading for Year 13 economists studying aspects of trade and globalisation.