Cash crops
Henry Leveson-Gower looks at how local food currencies might bear fruit. Our food system is deeply dysfunctional. Economic forces drive it to deliver unhealthy food, while trashing the environment so …
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Who will save the world?
Raj Thamotheram is, in theory, betting on pension funds. Covid has transformed global politics and the Omicron variant has caused markets to tumble. Meanwhile COP26 failed to address, adequately, the …
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Living off a box of chocolates
Private equity in the care sector is thriving on growing demand and dwindling state provision. Vivek Kotecha asks whether its sweet tooth for debt might not bode well for its …
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Trade Experts Highlight Role for AfCFTA in Economic Recovery of African Continent
An event titled, “Exploring the African Continental Free Trade Area and the Resilient Economic Recovery” and organised by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and Tulip Consulting, centred on exploring the resilient …
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Turkey’s economic gamble
Polite descriptions of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s economic policies go something along the lines of “unorthodox” or “going against the grain.” Put more bluntly, his ideas appear to tap into …
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World trade reaches all-time high, but 2022 outlook ‘uncertain’: UNCTAD
According to UN trade and development body UNCTAD, although worldwide commerce stabilized during the second half of 2021, trade in goods went on to reach record levels between July and September. …
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IMF revives $6BN bailout for Pakistan’s economy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday it had agreed with Pakistan on measures needed to revive a stalled $6bn funding programme for the South Asian country, which faces …
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BoE chief economist hints at rate rise but new Covid variant fuels doubts
The Bank of England appears to have move a step closer towards increasing the cost of borrowing next month after its new chief economist, Huw Pill, said the UK’s recovery from …
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The negativity bias in news about how public money is used affects our willingness to pay taxes
To meet the public’s preference for negative content. the media tend to overreport negative news. Miloš Fišar, Tommaso Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini, and Jiří Špalek write that this negativity bias in the coverage of economic policy issues …
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Researchers caution global economic growth could slide into stagnation
We’ve been living in a time of unprecedented global economic growth. Depressions, recessions and other dips in the economy notwithstanding, the last century has been unlike any other before in …
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