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Do hard times increase concerns about immigration?

Ingrid Storm By Filed Under: Ethnicity, Europe, Featured Posted:

Dr Ingrid Storm argues that economic concerns about immigration are related to financial insecurity. In the wake of the Syrian refugee crisis immigration is high on the political agenda throughout Europe, sharply dividing public opinion. Anti-immigration rhetoric often paints a picture of immigrants as “stealing jobs” or “scrounging” on the welfare system, arguments that can […]

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TTIP- Time to focus on the big stuff

Ferdi De VilleGabriel Siles-Brügge By and Filed Under: All posts Posted:

On Saturday, a number of demonstrations were held across Europe to protest against TTIP and other trade agreements (notably the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement [CETA], the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] and the Trade in Services Agreement [TiSA]). Next week, EU and US officials will return to the negotiating table in Miami for the 11th […]

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The oldest war crime in the book?

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Last Friday, October 3,  the US airforce bombed a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. Bertrand Taithe says such actions are likely to be counter-productive in the long run. The attack in Kunduz  destroyed the hospital and killed  12 Médecins sans Frontières staff and about 10 of their patients. The US military soon recognized their responsibility for […]

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Curbing crude oil theft

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Omonigho Otanocho looks at the little known problem of crude oil theft, which costs lives and contributes to global terrorism. Crude oil theft, otherwise known as ‘illegal crude oil bunkering’, is global challenge especially for oil exporting countries like Nigeria. According to reports available at the Chatham House website, “Nigerian crude oil is being stolen […]

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Is the use of statistics leading to short-term economic thinking?

Diane Coyle By Filed Under: All posts Posted:

Diane Coyle asks if our use of economic statistics is distorting policy and making it focused on the short-term. When the same question crops up in some very different places, it is a signal of the importance of the issue. In two events recently, participants have challenged the role of the media in the economy. […]

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Refugees: Lessons from history

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Peter Gatrell teaches a course on refugees in modern world history and is author of “The Making of the Modern Refugee”. Here he makes a few observations about what history can teach today’s policy makers. Never has this subject seemed timelier or more troubling than in 2015. Here I reflect on two questions: what might […]

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The SDGs mark the end of development as poverty reduction

David Hulme By Filed Under: All posts Posted:

In the final part of our series on the Sustainable Development Goals which have just been agreed in New York, David Hulme analyses what it all means…. The UN has been setting goals to combat poverty for the last 50 or 60 years, but this gathered pace since 1990, following the end of the Cold […]

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Zoning global? North Korea’s Special Economic Zones

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Jamie Doucette and Seung-Ook Lee ask if there are lessons for policymakers in the actions of North and South Korea in setting up zones where they can work together. When one hears the word globalisation, the image of North Korea rarely comes to mind. Long regarded as a hermit kingdom, a rogue state, and international […]

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Varieties of the democratic state market?

Colin Talbot By Filed Under: All posts Posted:

When Francis Fukuyama published his now famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) initial essay on “The End of History” in 1989 it provoked a furious discussion that continues to this day (the later book version is here) and is continued here by Colin Talbot. The discussion has often generated more heat than […]

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Migrant Drs keep the NHS going

Kingsley PurdamRob FordAneez Esmail By , , and Filed Under: All posts Posted:

Research led by Yasmin Ghazala Farooq with Kingsley Purdam, Aneez Esmail and Rob Ford at the University of Manchester has highlighted the vital contribution overseas trained doctors have made to people’s health and to the NHS in the UK. Given the ongoing debates about immigration control it is important to recognise that Britishness is a […]

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