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Debt dangers in Africa: how defaults hurt people, and why forgiveness isn’t the answer

Public debt repayments in some African countries are at their highest levels since 1998. The Conversation Africa’s founding editor Caroline Southey talks to dean and economics professor Philippe Burger about the danger of debt problems some African countries face.

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Did the Reserve Bank's interest rate hikes put Australia's economy on a 'knife-edge'? A major consulting firm thinks so

A major consulting firm forecasts a "consumer recession" in 2023, warning hundreds of thousands of Australian households are bleeding cash every month.

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Grattan on Friday: Chalmers grapples with a budget where economics and politics pull in different directions

Last weekend’s report that more than 10 million Australians are facing a large tax rise wasn’t a new revelation.

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Journalists needs to be more critical of the way governments use 'nudging' to change our behaviour – here's why

Suppose you are in a pub with friends. You drink a few beers, have a good time, and head home. The following morning you realise your headache is milder than usual. You then discover that you were part of an experiment where the glasses at the pub were 25% smaller.

The Conversation

AI will end the west’s weak productivity and low growth. But who exactly will benefit?

The clock is ticking on the development of policy to meet this huge societal challenge, says Larry Elliott, the Guardian’s economics editor

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Review: 'A Living Remedy,' by Nicole Chung

NONFICTION: Chung writes about her parents' illnesses, the economics of sickness and her separation from them both during the pandemic.

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Alberta’s minimum wage report leaves out labour perspectives in favour of corporate interests

Alberta’s minimum wage expert panel report was recently released three years after it was submitted to the provincial government.

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Virgin Media restores internet service after outages across UK – as it happened

Company’s own website went down and internet was inaccessible for several hours. Follow all our live coverage of business, economics and financial markets

The Guardian - UK

Pioneering Black economist Sir Arthur Lewis celebrated with university building after four year campaign

Sir Arthur Lewis became the London School of Economics’s first Black academic in 1938, and now has a building named in his honour

The Independent UK

Western slowdown to weigh on Thai production

Thai exports are likely to be indirectly affected by banking problems in the US and Europe, slowing an already sluggish sector and causing a drop in the Manufacturing Production Index (MPI), according to the Office of Industrial Economics (OIE).

Bangkok Post

Graham Pyatt obituary

Other lives: Warwick University economics professor and World Bank development economist

The Guardian - UK

Economist tackles independence currency question and urges Scots to be 'grown up'

ON THE first day of Scotland’s first economics festival, one economist urged Scots to support the adoption of a new currency and face being “a…

The National (Scotland)

Scotonomics day one: Innovation, currency, macroeconomics, and comedy

AN in-person and online audience was welcomed to Scotland’s first economics festival on Friday evening.

The National (Scotland)

Economics of independence 'far less important' than politics, says economist

ECONOMICS is "far less important" when considering questions like Scottish independence than politics, a professor of the subject has said.

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Scotland's first Festival of Economics kicks off in Dundee

SCOTLAND’S first Festival of Economics begins today in Dundee.

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What to expect from the first night of Scotland's Festival of Economics

Here’s what to expect on first night

The Guardian - UK

‘Our staff members are social activists’: the university with a critical approach to economics

Economist and best-selling author Ha-Joon Chang says that students at Soas University of London are encouraged to look at the failures of capitalism

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Why our economy is too important to leave to the experts

It's time to democratise economics and demand an economy that works for people and the planet, argues Catherine Knight

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SVB collapse proves global financial system needs rethink, says Nobel economist

After Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, shaking world markets, Nobel economics prize winner Joseph Stiglitz says US authorities "did the right thing" by providing federal money to protect deposits. But the economist also says the financial system needs a rethink to properly bring it into the digital era.

France 24

Collapse & chaos: SVB, Signature Bank failures spark global panic

Is America facing a banking crisis? As regulators try to stem the fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley and Signature Banks, we look at the risks for the rest of the system. Kate Moody speaks to economist Nicolas Veron from the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the European…

The Conversation

Jeremy Hunt's budget is more about short-term politics than the economy

Jeremy Hunt’s first budget day as chancellor was in many ways more about politics than economics.

The Guardian - UK

Dining across the divide: ‘Some of her generation view everything through a catastrophic lens’

Could a leftwing economics student find common ground with a business owner ‘from the blue side of town’ over colonial reparations, climate and the monarchy?

The Conversation

Budget explainer: here are some ways to read between the lines on what's being reported

UK budget announcements inevitably lead to a deluge of reporting on how the chancellor’s latest plans for the economy will affect our wallets, pensions and investments, as well as the bottom lines of businesses, charities and entire industries.

Bangkok Post

Bank of Japan keeps low rates

Japan's central bank left its ultra-easy monetary policy unchanged in its last meeting before Governor Haruhiko Kuroda steps down and is replaced by economics professor Kazuo Ueda.

ABC News

Scrutiny of youth justice laws 'cements Queensland as a backwater', youth advocate and lawyer Katherine Hayes says

Youth Advocacy Centre CEO Katherine Hayes' comments came after a parliamentary committee released a report recommending the Palaszczuk Government's proposed youth justice law changes be passed.

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