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Hawassa Industrial Park in Ethiopia - Evaluating the impact of FDI
The Guardian visits Hawassa Industrial Park in Ethiopia and provides a fantastic mini case study for students taking development economics as part of their A-level.
Carbon: From Pollutant to Product
The cement industry generates around nine percent of the world's carbon emissions each year. Roughly one tonne of CO2 is produced for each tonne of cement.
The Presource Curse
This article from the December 2017 edition of Finance and Development (published by the IMF) will be of interest and value to students and teachers for whom development economics and policy is a...
Behavioural Economics: Category Size Bias
Here is a good example to use when discussing behavioural biases, specifically the problems people have in estimating probability and the exaggerated importance of category size when people...
Adapt to survive in an intangible world
The Guardian's John Harris writes here on 'platform capitalism', with a large nod in the direction of Haskel and Westlake's new book "Capitalism Without Capital". It makes for fascinating reading,...
Capitalism without capital
A new book by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake - Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy - is causing quite a stir among those intrigued by the rise of digital platform...
How technology tries to hack your brain
The distraction and the emotion of the attention economy is explored in this superb video from David Grossman of BBC Newsnight.
How the US Federal Reserve sets interest rates
How the Federal Reserve sets rates. It's American-focused but shows how the base rate is only part of the story for the average bank customer, and thus equally applicable to the UK too.
Universal Credit - A Case Study in Government Failure
This is deeply sobering six minute video from BBC Newsnight as we visit a food bank in the west end of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Rhino poaching, property rights and the economics of trading horns
You might not think that rhino poaching is an economic issue. I do.
Brazil’s contaminated river Doce
A short video revealing the long term economic and social damage from the contamination of a river following the bursting of an iron ore waste dam burst in the town of Mariana, Brazil.
Money for Nothing? Economics of Robots and Basic Income
More than ten million UK workers are at risk of having their jobs replaced by robots in the next decade. Could a universal basic income be a radical but effective approach in the face of...
The Broken Phillips Curve and Missing Pay Rises
Really interesting conceptual article about the conduct of monetary policy in the UK, with Larry Elliott arguing that the setting of interest rates is predicated upon a broken economic model, which...
The Climate Change Experiment
This is a fantastic, detailed and slightly startling clip.
How the magic money tree works
This is essential background reading for ALL students taking a unit in basic financial economics!
Normalising interest rates
This autumn, the Bank of England is expected to start raising policy interest rates from an ultra-low level of 0.25%.
A History of UK Recessions
Each recession differs in length, depth and the time it takes for output to recover its pre-recession peak
Privatisation versus Nationalisation
Here is a timely and excellent Tim Harford piece on the debate on, and vacillations between, nationalisation and privatisation. Great especially for the EdExcel economics specification.
Building state capability - the next big development challenge
This article from the World Bank looks ideal for students of development economics.
Changing Economics of Urban Farming
The FT visits a cluster of urban farmers in London whose ingenuity, vision and drive might well be at the cutting edge of a farming revolution. City agriculturalists are harnessing technologies...