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One of the winning essays from the Economic Futures Essay Competition, Covid-19 pandemic, its impact on air quality and possible long-run effect on the environment written by Maciej Zielinski of the University of Glasgow
One of the winning essays from the Economic Futures Essay Competition How reliant are UK universities on Tuition Fees and How will they adapt in a post-pandemic world? written by Lori McCluskey of The University of Dundee
One of the winning essays from the Economic Futures Essay Competition Covid-19: Will the economic impact on women set gender equality back decades? written by Leanne Wilson of Glasgow Caledonian University.
One of the winning essays from the Economic Futures Essay Competition ‘The rich get richer and the poor get poorer’: exploring the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the widening inequality gap in the UK, written by Catherine Bouchard of the University of Glasgow.
Roger Mullin, Director of Momentous Change, Honorary Professor (University of Stirling) member of the Scotland Africa Business Association. On 13 May 2020, the first case of Covid19 was identified in Lesotho, making it the last of Africa’s 54 countries to declare the presence of the virus. Somewhat surprisingly, Lesotho had …
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This blog includes highlights and key points from the article Service re-design in healthcare: the impact of innovative methods to compare costs and benefits (Anderson et.al, 2019). The article was written by Robyn Millar, Gillian H. Anderson (corresponding author) Robert Van Der Meer and Alec Morton – all at the Department …
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Peter Thorpe, a 4th year economics student at The University of Strathclyde, carried out independent research on the Scottish Humankind Index over last summer. This blog summarises his research. The Humankind Index was developed in 2011 as a means of measuring wellbeing in Scotland beyond using standard economic measures like …
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This blog was written by Catherine Findlay and Jodi McLean, 5th Year school Pupils from St Andrew’s RC Secondary School, who were at the Fraser of Allander Institute for a week’s work experience. It is becoming more common to look beyond GDP and to understand a society’s well-being alongside its …
Well-being in Scotland: looking beyond GDP to wider measures of success Read More »
Mark Mitchell and Robert Zymek University of Edinburgh It is now well understood that differences in labour productivity – the value of goods and services that can be produced in an average hour of work – explain many observable economic differences between countries. Evidence shows that that highly productive economies outperform …
Scotland’s “Middling” Productivity – An International Perspective Read More »
Duncan Whitehead is the EY Lead for Economic Advisory in Scotland – DWhitehead2@uk.ey.com. He is also a visiting researcher at the Fraser of Allander Institute. The views expressed in this blog are those of Duncan. The blog summarises the latest findings from the EY Scotland Attractiveness Survey 2018 report. …