Nigeria needs a radical shift in its economic policy approach. Macroeconomic stability won’t automatically create jobs and alleviate poverty.
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Nigeria’s 2025 budget is anything but pro-poor.
Trade wars, digital currencies and robots automating workplaces - the Star Wars film franchise provides numerous lessons in the basics of economics.
Canadians have a distorted view of others’ financial well-being compared to their neighbours across the border.
There are a number of reasons why there’s such a significant gap between aggregate economic numbers and the perceptions of everyday people.
Microeconomics analyzes how individuals and businesses behave as they try to get the most they can for as little money as possible.
In his second “vision statement” Albanese says he wants to pursue his “productivity project”, and paints himself as a fiscal conservative well removed from Bill Shorten’s tax and spend approach.
Investors are increasingly concerned about climate change, but for the markets to deploy their full capacities, the dominant principles that guide them need to be revised.
Counterintuitively, vague incentives are often stronger than clear ones.
The internet has always been just about to deliver an enormous spurt of economic growth or productivity growth A new meta-analysis of 59 econometric studies finds it is yet to do so.
Weather has an impact on the sales of certain products, and new research shows that timely adjustments in price and advertising can make it possible for firms to increase profits.
The 1990s obsession with the current account looks silly with hindsight, perhaps akin to our current one with fiscal deficits and surpluses.
Efforts to fix the UK’s failure to make more stuff and be more profitable focus too far up the chain.
Ignore the gloom around prospects for emerging markets. There are diamonds in the rough.
The annual economics award recognises the value of micro analysis and good, old-fashioned legwork.
One certainty about economic forecasts is that, almost certainly, they will prove to be incorrect. The best forecasters can hope for is not to make systematic errors – to get it right on average – and…
Welcome to Some Sports Economics, a six-part video series explaining economic concepts through sport, by La Trobe University senior lecturer, Liam Lenten. In the sixth and final part of this series, Liam…
Welcome to Some Sports Economics, a six-part video series explaining economic concepts through sport, by La Trobe University senior lecturer, Liam Lenten. In the fifth part of this series, Liam looks at…
Welcome to Some Sports Economics, a six-part video series explaining economic concepts through sport, by La Trobe University senior lecturer, Liam Lenten. In the fourth part of this series, Liam explains…
Welcome to Some Sports Economics, a six-part video series explaining economic concepts through sport, by La Trobe University senior lecturer, Liam Lenten. Ever wondered why the AFL doesn’t charge more…
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