Topic description and stories

Electric car charging in Birmingham city centre

Green COVID-19 recovery packages can boost economic growth and tackle climate change, researchers say

05 May 2020

Researchers find long-term, climate-friendly stimulus policies are often superior in overall economic impact – not just in slowing global warming.

Read more
A reporter takes a photo of Donald Trump during a White House coronavirus briefing in April

Economic damage could be worse without lockdown and social distancing – study

29 Apr 2020

The worst thing for the economy would be not acting at all to prevent disease spread, followed by too short a lockdown, according to research based...

Read more
Chef in Soho, London.

Women bear brunt of coronavirus economic shutdown in UK and US

21 Apr 2020

New data shows women and people who did not go to university are more likely to have lost work and earnings since mid-March.

Read more

A deserted Grand Via, in the heart of Madrid, a week after the lockdown started.

Economic activity has halved during Spain’s coronavirus lockdown, study suggests

15 Apr 2020

Almost one and a half billion spending transactions reveal 'real-time' reactions of consumers in a major western economy during the nation’s peak...

Read more
Closed signs

Younger workers hit harder by coronavirus economic shock in UK and US

03 Apr 2020

Those on low incomes are also more likely to have lost jobs or pay, and less able to complete work tasks from home. Researchers warn the COVID-19...

Read more

Opinion: United we stand, divided we fall

25 Mar 2020

Our interdependent economy means the COVID-19 pandemic will cause unavoidable short term pain, but presents important choices about the long term...

Read more

Ecosystems Overload

10 Dec 2019

We are laying waste to the biosphere. If we're serious about saving millions of species, then it's our own that must change how it thinks about...

Read more
A forest on fire.

Climate change to shrink economies of rich, poor, hot and cold countries alike unless Paris Agreement holds

19 Aug 2019

Study suggests that 7% of global GDP will disappear by 2100 as a result of business-as-usual carbon emissions, including over 10% of incomes in both...

Read more
Left to right: Hilary Cooper, Simon Szreter, Ben Szreter

Cambridge historian and his family members announced as joint winners of one of the biggest cash prizes in world economics

10 Jul 2019

A ‘radical’ plan by three members of the same family to boost UK growth has been named as one of the first winners of the £100,000 Institute for...

Read more

How to tend an economic bonfire

01 Mar 2019

Business, enterprise and employment are flourishing in Greater Cambridge, but housing and infrastructure are struggling to match the jobs boom, and...

Read more

Military spending did not 'crowd out' welfare in Middle East prior to Arab Spring

24 Jul 2018

Findings dispute 'guns versus butter' narrative as a major factor behind the Arab Spring. Researchers caution against uncritically applying lessons...

Read more

How 9,000 lists written over 300 years are helping to test theories of economic growth

03 Jul 2018

The handwritten inventories had lain largely untouched for centuries. Sand used to dry the ink still lay between the pages. Written neatly inside...

Read more

Pages