In November 2022 I wrote a blog about our research on maternal well-being, infant feeding and return to work funded by the Nuffield Foundation, as we launched our project’s mother’s…Read More >
Sarah Jewell is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading. She is a principal investigator for a Nuffield Foundation project on ‘Maternal Well-Being, Infant Feeding and Return to Paid…Read More >
An article recently published in Environmental Science & Policy suggests that current economic approaches to addressing environmental and health issues in the European Union suffer from a lack of imagination,…Read More >
In the aftermath to the abolition of slavery, about 2 million indentured workers travelled from the Indian sub-continent to the British plantation colonies between 1834 and the First World War….Read More >
One of the keys to China’s economic renaissance over the past couple of decades is often overlooked. Namely, it has built a lot of roads. China’s highways have more or…Read More >
The second wave of the pandemic has struck India with a devastating impact. With over 300,000 new cases and 3,000 deaths across the country each day at present, the total…Read More >
The oil price is on a rollercoaster. Having crashed into negative territory just last April, the price of Brent crude climbed all the way to US$70 (£50) earlier in March….Read More >
The UK housing market has been affected by the pandemic, but in ways that were not anticipated at the outset. Initially, forecasters thought that the sharp reduction in economic activity…Read More >
