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Labour Economics: Economy in 2020

Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Economy in 2020’ is admirable for the working class in its principles but ultimately has its flaws. Battered and bruised, with knees rocking after a haymaker, Labour’s current predicament within British...

by Bradley Griffiths

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Beyond the ECI

The European Citizens Initiative (ECI), introduced by the Lisbon Treaty enables citizens to make proposals to the European Commission for initiation, modification or to stop the proposal and process of legislation. As the hopes...

by Lívia Magdošková

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The Hidden Value Of India’s Space Program

On the fifth of this month the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) became the fourth space agency in the world to attempt to reach the Red Planet. ISRO’s Sriharikota assembly and launch facility, in the very south of An...

by Christopher Cannell

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Reforming The EU’s Cohesion Funds

The city of Bytom lies at the heart of Silesia – a region in the south of Poland that used to be the industrial center of the country. Through the second half of the 20th century, the Communist government fostered steel and ...

by Greg Janota

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Student Fees: What are they promising?

Tuition fees have become a key battleground in the election campaign. What are the parties promising? Who has the best deal for students? From violent protests on the streets of London to Nick Clegg’s infamous “I’m sorry�...

by Alex Longley

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Of Trading Partners, Integration and the East African Community

With various interconnectivity projects between Uganda and Tanzania; Ethiopia and Kenya and Kenya and Rwanda, the region has taken action to improve trade competitiveness through the improvement of regional hard and soft infras...

by Eunice Kilonzo

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Mashing Mexico’s Monopolies

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa described Mexico under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) as the ‘perfect dictatorship’; an exquisite balancing act of entrenched special interests. Much like Mexico under ...

by James Penn

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The Current Economic Model: A Destructive Social Construct?

As the world witnesses an Ebola outbreak that has been hyped by the media as the next Black Plague, we are left to wonder why the problem of climate change doesn’t attract as much attention. Unarguably, climate change is real...

by Apratim Vidyarthi

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WATCH: Living on one dollar

We all know that there are many people in the world who live in poverty. Poverty has become a part of people’s lives even in the most cosmopolitan of cities – but only because we hear about it so much and are urged ...

by Priyanka Mogul

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Labour Economics: Economy in 2020

Beyond the ECI

The Hidden Value Of India’s Space Program

Reforming The EU’s Cohesion Funds

Student Fees: What are they promising?

Of Trading Partners, Integration and the East African Community

Mashing Mexico’s Monopolies

The Current Economic Model: A Destructive Social Construct?

WATCH: Living on one dollar

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