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By: Hannah Buttle

UCL graduate in economics

  • Excel glitch “propelled England to a different stage of the pandemic,” researchers say

    Excel glitch propelled England to different stage of pandemic

    A Microsoft Excel error which caused positive Covid-19 results to go missing has been linked to 1,500 excess deaths, researchers have suggested. Thiemo Fetzer and Thomas Graeber of Warwick and Harvard universities, respectively, examined the impact of the glitch, which affected positive cases in late September and October. The lost cases meant that 16,000 contacts [...]

  • Growth rate of UK R&D funding slips to the lowest in nearly a decade

    Growth rate of UK R&D funding slips to the lowest in nearly a decade

    UK businesses spent a total of £25.9bn on research and development (R&D) in 2019, an increase of just 3.3 per cent on the previous year’s spending.

  • How does the UK’s capital gains tax compare to other nations?

    How does the UK's capital gains tax compare to other nations?

  • UK youth unemployment reaches its highest level in four years

    November 20, 2020

    UK youth unemployment reaches its highest level in four years

  • Treasury advisor sacked by Dominic Cummings wins five-figure payout

    November 13, 2020

    A former government aide who was fired by Boris Johnson’s top advisor Dominic Cummings will receive a five-figure settlement from the government. Sonia Khan, who worked as a media adviser for the Treasury, had been sacked by Cummings in August of last year. She was “frogmarched” out of Downing Street by police, according to a [...]

  • Working from home may put women at a disadvantage: Warwick University

    November 13, 2020

    Women who worked from home during the UK’s first lockdown reported a larger average decline in their productivity compared to men, according to a study published by Covid Economics. Women with children were worse affected than childless women. Ben Etheridge, an economics professor at Warwick University, led the study. He said that governments should consider [...]

  • 90 per cent of UK trade not covered by free trade deals post-Brexit

    November 10, 2020

    Only 10 per cent of all UK cross-border trade will be covered by current free-trade agreements after 31 December, City AM understands. Fifty-two countries currently have free trade deals in place with the UK for the end of the Brexit transition period. These agreements account for only 10 per cent of the UK’s total cross-border [...]

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