Wednesday, 18 March 2009
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Economics news post for AS and A2 students at MPW Cambridge - please add brief comments to stories you find interesting or relevant. You can: speculate on future trends; link in with other topics or units; interpret/analyse; evaluate (magnitude of change/short term/long term...); offer a personal evaluation (normative statements) but please offer evidence or an explanation. You can also evaluate other students' comments but please be professional in your response.
The Sloman Economics News Site
Useful A-level Economics links
- Labour Behind the Label - which companies exploit foreign labour
- MPW Cambridge Economics Portal
- Eurostat - all economic stats for the EU
- Deutsche Bank - brilliant free economics research site
- ONS - Office for National Statistics UK
- Gapminder.org - amazing data about different countries
- WTO World Trade Organisation
- Bank of England MPC minutes for download
- European Central Bank
- The World Bank - fighting poverty through development
- IMF - International Monetary Fund
- OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development
- CBI - Confederation of British Industry
- Economicshelp.org - excellent advice for A-level students
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK thinktank for poverty and equity issues
- MPW Economics Web Portal
- Sloman economics site
- Telegraph Finance & Economics
- Trades Union Congress (TUC) - main UK union lobby group
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I think another reason of using the claiment account measure, apart from being quiker, is that this is the number of people that govt has to spend money on. It' closely related to govt spending. -- Luna
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