Category: Micro

As 80mph winds swept across the Caribbean and the southern US, Hurricane Isaac left 41 people dead and caused $2.4 billion (£1.9 billion) of damage. … Read more

Good biosecurity policy decisions, particularly in relation to plant industry protection, are of ever-increasing importance. Growth in the speed and diversity of trade, the effects … Read more

Falling fertility rates have often been linked to rising female wages. However, over the last 40 years the US total fertility rate has been rather … Read more

The 10th edition of Professor Tony Thirlwall’s textbook, Economics of Development: Theory and Empirics, now co-authored with Dr Penélope Pacheco-López, is published this month by Palgrave-Macmillan … Read more

A report by the School’s Dr Zaki Wahhaj and Dr M Niaz Asadullah from the University of Malaya has been published in The Conversation on Bangladesh’s new child … Read more

“If you had been a canny investor back in 2008, you could have done a lot worse than make a substantial bet on upmarket ice … Read more