Thursday, October 1, 2009

By 2050, 25m more children to go hungry?

Environmental Objectives
This Guardian report describes how the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has reported that if the world does not solve problems caused by global warming, then 25, 000,000 more children will go hungry by the middle of this century as climate change and leads to food shortages.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Money Markets explained


A Short Video on how the Money Markets work

The Economic Impact of Swine Flu

A short video from Business Week Magazine - about the possible impact on macroeconomic objectives of Swine Flu. Wath this, but ....dont panic...!


Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Inside the world's biggest drain

2 recent examples of Demand Side Policies in action - both classic examples of how China is using Fiscal policy (increased government spending) to increase aggregate demand to keep key macroeconomic objectives such as low unemployment and high economic growth .



  • Click here to watch a short video : Inside the world's biggest drain

  • Click here to watch a short video : China's solution to economic woes

Saturday, September 5, 2009

The Chinese Economy in 3 minutes

Great summary of the Chinese economy from The Economist