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Facing the resource curse: The Challenge for Burma
Burma is a country with vast reserves of natural resources. It’s territory includes substantial reserves of natural gas, oil and minerals. Despite this Burma remains one of the poorest countries in...
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Japanese Gender Inequality and the Demographic Time Bomb – The Costs of Hard...
Japan consistently ranks as one of the most developed countries in the world, however it may be a surprise to many that large and persistent gender inequalities still exist. Although Japan has seen...
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Things can only get better? Another day of bad news for the UK economy
Today I have woken up to a story that I commented on a few weeks ago concerning the UK’s strategy to promote exports as a new source of growth. This policy forwarded by the chancellor has aimed to...
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Slovenia and Luxembourg – the next victims of Cyprus contagion?
Since the debacle in Cyprus one question has been at the back of every commentators mind: who’s next? Naturally those countries with the same characteristics as Cyprus have been main contenders –...
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Combating Deflation – The Japanese Experience
The recent announcement by Japan’s new central bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda to engage in a new round of quantitative easing and combat deflation has been met with a rather positive response. This...
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The Next Global Crisis – The Carbon Bubble
The Next Global Crisis – The Carbon Bubble This combined video and graphic provides an clear insight into what could potentially bring about another global economic crisis – the so called carbon...
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Opening Pandora’s box – the G8 turns to Nestle and Monsanto to combat hunger
So the London Hunger Summit has culminated in a doubling of funds devoted to tackling hunger. The summit has promised to increase annual funding from rich countries to $900 million (currently $418...
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When Economists Get It Wrong! The Worst Economic Predictions Of All Time
Economics is often described as the ‘dismal science’. Unlike other traditional sciences, economics rarely provides a simple solution to present day issues. Furthermore economists have a poor record of...
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Removing the World Bank Blinkers – Income Categories and Foreign Aid
In one of my very first posts I looked at the recent decision by the UK government to cut foreign aid to India. One of the main justifications used by policy makers was that India had now reached a...
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Are Hungary’s Unorthodox Economic Policies working?
In 2010 Hungary elected the Fidesz party and its leader Viktor Orban into power. Since then the government has implemented a range of unorthodox economic reforms which have drawn criticism from...
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