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Nov 274 min read

Levelling the Global Financial Playing Field: BRICS' Strategic Bid for Monetary Independence

Syed Hussain BRICS' ambitious bid to level the global financial playing field presents more questions than answers in the evolving...

A Leaky Bucket: How Britain’s Consumption Tax System Undermines its Economy

Abhay Venkitaraman

Oct 246 min read

A Leaky Bucket: How Britain’s Consumption Tax System Undermines its Economy

Abhay Venkitaraman Illustration by Will Allen The UK’s Value Added Tax (VAT), a tax on household consumption, spares many goods and...

The Price of Imperialism : Israel, Oil, and the looming Global Recession

Syed Hussain

Nov 10, 20235 min read

The Price of Imperialism : Israel, Oil, and the looming Global Recession

By Syed Hussain The Israel-Palestine war has profound and wide-ranging implications for the global economy that extend far beyond its...

Kavisha Manoj

Mar 17, 20235 min read

Editorial: Holes in Doughnut Economics?

By Kavisha Manoj Despite the deep entrenchment of neoclassical economics, the past 2 decades have seen a variety of alternative economic...

Warwick Think Tank

Jan 31, 20236 min read

Re-Envisioning the Command Economy

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of the Cold War and lifted previous restrictions for capitalist nations, allowing...

Investment Zones the answer to the Levelling up agenda?

Kavisha Manoj

Jan 17, 20234 min read

Investment Zones the answer to the Levelling up agenda?

Political history of Investment Zones Similar to the Enterprise Zones promoted by Thatcher and Osborne, the Investment Zones announced by...

Editorial: Japan: playground for technocrats?

Warwick Think Tank

Dec 14, 20226 min read

Editorial: Japan: playground for technocrats?

Once thought to be the next superpower economy, Japan is an extremely interesting case of a country that utilised its war economy to its...

Private Finance holding us to Ransom: rapid decarbonisation is impeded by a policy of appeasement

Finlay Healy

Nov 15, 20224 min read

Private Finance holding us to Ransom: rapid decarbonisation is impeded by a policy of appeasement

Economics tells a lot of stories to make it seem inevitable the things it tells us to do. When it comes to climate action, the orthodox...

Blackness and Banking: Closing the Racial Wealth gap

Vriddhi Khattar

Oct 28, 20223 min read

Blackness and Banking: Closing the Racial Wealth gap

A 2020 article by CNBC offered that the racial wealth gap in the United States would be solved through education on financial...

Kavisha Manoj

Oct 24, 20224 min read

Trussonomics: a lesson in credibility

After just 44 days of economic and political upheaval, Liz Truss announced her resignation as the PM of the country. By the end of the...

Index-Linked Gilts: Bad Policy that bear the mark of their time

Finlay Healy

Oct 13, 20224 min read

Index-Linked Gilts: Bad Policy that bear the mark of their time

Index-Linked Gilts are in part a standard U.K. Government bond. An investor loans money to the government on the promise that the funds...

Turkey's Economic Meltdown: 'Erdoganomics' and Spiralling Inflation

Jhanvi Mehta

Mar 10, 20224 min read

Turkey's Economic Meltdown: 'Erdoganomics' and Spiralling Inflation

Turkey faces an economic meltdown as a result of Erdogan’s dismal macro-economic competency. The annual inflation rate has soared to a...

Can We Really Smoke the Kremlin Out? The Tough Reality of Economic Sanctions

Eve Dunkley

Feb 22, 20224 min read

Can We Really Smoke the Kremlin Out? The Tough Reality of Economic Sanctions

Tensions between Russia and Ukraine are at their highest since 2014 with as many as 190,000 Russian troops currently deployed at the...

Plight of the Migrant Workers: Covid-19's Paralysis of Global Labour Flows

Warwick Think Tank

Feb 1, 20224 min read

Plight of the Migrant Workers: Covid-19's Paralysis of Global Labour Flows

This article has been written by contributor Sharanya Chakraborty The Covid 19 pandemic led to a halt in global migration flows by the...

Unleashing Britain’s Potential? Two years of Johnsonism Under Review

Warwick Think Tank

Dec 2, 20214 min read

Unleashing Britain’s Potential? Two years of Johnsonism Under Review

This article has been written by contributor James Baldwin Two years have passed since the resounding election victory of Boris Johnson...

Billionaires Beware: Congressional Toils and Trials

Eve Dunkley

Nov 25, 20214 min read

Billionaires Beware: Congressional Toils and Trials

On Wednesday 27th October, Oregon Senator and chair of the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden unveiled his plans for a new tax that...

Warwick Think Tank

Nov 23, 20214 min read

Covid Plan B – What, Why and If?

This article has been written by contributor Harry Ward Around this time last year England crashed into its second Covid-19 lockdown. At...

Are We Entering Another Winter Of Discontent?

Susbin Shrestha

Oct 21, 20214 min read

Are We Entering Another Winter Of Discontent?

Above expectation inflation, astronomical energy prices and shortages across the board have aroused a profound sense of uncertainty and...

Evergrande- Perhaps Not To Be Ever Grand?

Eve Dunkley

Oct 14, 20214 min read

Evergrande- Perhaps Not To Be Ever Grand?

The Evergrande Group, China’s leading real estate developer, has found itself with debt totalling over $300 billion, while it has over...

Armandas Kondroška

Oct 12, 20214 min read

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Gamble.

On September 7, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. From now on, citizens can buy...

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