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Progress Up North: Exploring the Success of Canadian Child Benefit Reforms
Abhay Venkitaraman Over the past decade, Canadian governments on both sides of the aisle have implemented reforms to the country’s child...
Jan 18
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Progress Up North: Exploring the Success of Canadian Child Benefit Reforms
Abhay Venkitaraman Over the past decade, Canadian governments on both sides of the aisle have implemented reforms to the country’s child...
Abhay Venkitaraman
Jan 18
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...
Syed Hussain
Nov 27, 2024
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...
Abhay Venkitaraman
Oct 24, 2024
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...
Syed Hussain
Nov 10, 2023
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...
Kavisha Manoj
Mar 17, 2023
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...
Warwick Think Tank
Jan 31, 2023
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...
Kavisha Manoj
Jan 17, 2023
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...
Warwick Think Tank
Dec 14, 2022
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...
Finlay Healy
Nov 15, 2022
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...
Vriddhi Khattar
Oct 28, 2022
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...
Kavisha Manoj
Oct 24, 2022
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...
Finlay Healy
Oct 13, 2022
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...
Jhanvi Mehta
Mar 10, 2022
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...
Eve Dunkley
Feb 22, 2022
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...
Warwick Think Tank
Feb 1, 2022
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...
Warwick Think Tank
Dec 2, 2021
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...
Eve Dunkley
Nov 25, 2021
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...
Warwick Think Tank
Nov 23, 2021
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...
Susbin Shrestha
Oct 21, 2021
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...
Eve Dunkley
Oct 14, 2021
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Life, Death, and Dignity: Understanding the Assisted Dying Debate in the UK
India Gordon The UK is at a pivotal moment in its history with the proposed Terminally Ill Adults (Assisted Dying) Bill having passed its...
India Gordon
Jan 9
Confronting the UK's Far-Right Violence Problem
India Gordon This year, the UK witnessed a level of national violence not seen since the 2011 riots. However, the violence this time...
India Gordon
Nov 21, 2024
Innocence under Siege: The Plight of Gaza’s Children
By Mehul Chopra The Gaza Strip, a small, densely populated piece of land on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, is home to over 2...
Mehul Chopra
Jan 16, 2024
Refugees in Limbo:Confronting Discrimination and Institutional Racism in Europe's Immigration Crisis
By Saarah Rahman Refugees flee their home country due to violence, crossing international borders for safety. However, they are met with...
Saarah Rahman
Nov 8, 2023
Fast Fashion and Fast Food: A Parallel Model of Consumptions and Ethics
Aryanee Nair Fast fashion and fast food. The alliterative pair serves as a sonic anchor, suggesting urgency and immediacy which are...
Aryanee Nair
Jan 25
How 'Crazy Rich Asians' Put Singapore on the Global Map: A Marketing Masterclass
Aryanee Nair Singapore – known for the best airport in the world and its relations to the film ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ by John M. Chu,...
Aryanee Nair
Nov 7, 2024
Preserving Our Story: Navigating the Future of Digital and Cultural Preservation
By Tauseef Parkar The destruction of the Library of Alexandria centuries ago serves as a lesson on the fragility of human knowledge and...
Warwick Think Tank
Mar 26, 2024
Art VS Algorithms: The Battle for Pay Parity and Human Creativity in the Arts
By Tauseef Parkar After a 146-day standoff, the writers' strike finally came to an end. On September 24, the Writers Guild of America...
Tauseef Parkar
Oct 17, 2023
The Conservative Party: Out into the Wilderness
Will Allen The Conservative party, the UK's, and arguably the worlds, most storied political party is drawing its protected leadership...
Will Allen
Nov 2, 2024
2024 The Year of Elections: Change and Uncertainty
By Reuben Bye 2024 is the biggest year for voting, ever - and it will be a year of uncertainty. 76 countries with a combined population...
Reuben Bye
Jan 26, 2024
Editorial: Let Joe Biden Run Again
By Will Allen It seems like a given rule that presidents are expected to seek re-election. There are just six examples of incumbent...
Will Allen
Mar 20, 2023
Editorial: The chronicles of German extremism
By Ananya Sreekumar On 7th December 2022, German Special Forces, in tandem with regional Police forces, conducted raids across the...
Ananya Sreekumar
Mar 17, 2023
Editorials
Editorial: Regional Challenges Under the Magnifying Glass
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Nov 1, 2024
Explore Foreign Affairs
Rebuilding After Assad
Udaya Pal The fall of the brutal Assad regime on the 8th of December was rightly celebrated across the world, just as the horrors of the...
Udaya Pal
Feb 12
EU Membership: The Price of Belonging
Aditi Someshwar The European Union is one of the most powerful and significant geographic blocs in history. The Union extends...
Aditi Someshwar
Jan 8
Trump’s Return: What this means for the Fragile Balance in the Middle East
Udaya Pal Donald Trump’s incoming return to the White House has many skeptical and concerned about the implications for the future of US...
Udaya Pal
Dec 5, 2024
Global Plates: How Countries Export Culture
Aditi Someshwar Food is central to all of our lives, an essential ingredient for our mind, body, and soul. It is also a severely...
Aditi Someshwar
Nov 30, 2024
Explore Environment
High Ambitions, Higher Emissions: Is the UK Prioritising Growth Over Green?
Millie Gould It seems the Labour government’s commitments to climate action are up in the air after Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced...
Millie Gould
Mar 12
Carbon Markets: Making the Most of a Cornerstone of Climate Policy
Jakub Fegyveres Carbon markets are, currently, a highly topical issue in contemporary environmental policy. Included as one of the three...
Jakub Fegyveres
Jan 16
A Climate Conscious Curriculum: the Low-Cost way to Combat Disinformation and Improve our Future
Jakub Fegyveres What is the most important area of environmental policy? In my opinion, especially in this context, the relative...
Jakub Fegyveres
Dec 8, 2024
What does Donald Trump’s Recent Election Win Mean for Global Climate Change Policy?
Millie Gould It is no secret that Donald Trump has some controversial and downright conspiratorial views on climate change, with him even...
Millie Gould
Nov 19, 2024
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