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Month: May 2021

Encouraging millet production and consumption through Women’s Collective Enterprises in India.

By Grace Shore Banks | 27 May 2021

Dr Zaki Wahhaj, Reader in Economics at the University of Kent, will join an international research team on a project promoting the production and consumption … Read more

Research argues older workers should pay higher taxes than younger workers in US

By Grace Shore Banks | 27 May 2021

New research carried out by Professor Miltos Makris with Professor Alessandro Pavan Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) claims that on average workers become more productive over … Read more

Academic Peer Mentoring Applications Are Open!

By gm472 | 27 May 2021

Do you remember your first few weeks at uni? Getting lost on campus, not knowing where to find your textbooks, or not knowing what events … Read more

Working towards a Year in Industry

By Grace Shore Banks | 27 May 2021

On Tuesday 25th May we held our annual year in industry talk for Stage One Economics students run by Dr Penelope Pacheco Lopez, Director of … Read more

The MaGHiC Lecture 2021, delivered by Prof. Kiminori Matsuyama

By Grace Shore Banks | 26 May 2021

This year’s annual MaGHiC Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern University) presenting “A technology gap model of premature deindustrialization” with Ippei Fujiwara.  … Read more

New Blood needed in farming.

By Grace Shore Banks | 21 May 2021

Professor Sophia Davidova from Kent’s Centre for European Agri-Environmental Studies explains that an intergenerational shift in farming is necessary Following the announcement that the UK … Read more

If the vaccine programme succeeds and society returns to ‘normal’ in the near future, what will economic growth look like?

By Grace Shore Banks | 14 May 2021

The Office for National Statistics has estimated that the UK economy has grown by 2.1% in March 2021. Head of School, and Director of MaGHiC, … Read more

Launching ‘Everyday Economics’

By Grace Shore Banks | 12 May 2021

Our new Outreach programme, designed by students to teach everyday finances to 16-18 year olds, is ready to roll out through schools across the country. … Read more

Trough to Boom: UK firm creation during the COVID-19 pandemic

By Grace Shore Banks | 10 May 2021

The Macroconomics, Growth and History Centre (MaGHiC) preview their quarterly UK Economic Outlook in this NIESR ‘box’. “Business creation is an important indicator to monitor … Read more

Your Economics Society Needs You!

By Grace Shore Banks | 04 May 2021

Do you want to improve your networking, time management and organisational skills, whilst also having fun at the same time?   If so, it is not too … Read more

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