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Why it’s time for new approaches to environmental and health issues in the EU

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28 March 2023

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 >

Why it’s time for new approaches to environmental and health issues in the EU

Between Unfreedoms: How caste was a major determining factor in deciding return migration of indentured workers

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25 May 202222 February 2023

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 >

Between Unfreedoms: How caste was a major determining factor in deciding return migration of indentured workers

India’s terrible roads: how to build a world-class network and still reach net zero

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22 November 2021

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 >

India COVID crisis: four reasons it will derail the world economy

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30 April 2021

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 >

Oil: why higher prices will complicate the energy transition

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29 March 202123 March 2021

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 >

COVID stamp duty holiday reveals big problems in the housing market

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1 March 2021

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 >

Nature: how do you put a price on something that has infinite worth?

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10 February 202112 February 2021

There’s a new nature conservation strategy in town – and it means business. During the 1970s, 80s and 90s the main tactic to protect wildlife was to highlight the plight…Read More >

Cocaine: falling coffee prices force Peru’s farmers to cultivate coca

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8 February 202115 November 2021

A slump in world coffee prices has pushed farmers in Peru’s central jungle to rip up their plants and replace them with coca leaf – the raw material used in…Read More >

Four-day week: how workplaces can successfully establish it

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18 January 202118 January 2021

Many workplaces have been experimenting with different types of flexible working arrangements for years now, but the pandemic has made the need for flexibility far more pressing. This has led…Read More >

Bitcoin: why the price has exploded – and where it goes from here

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13 January 2021

Bitcoin achieved a remarkable rise in 2020 in spite of many things that would normally make investors wary, including US-China tensions, Brexit and, of course, an international pandemic. From a…Read More >

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