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🆕 You can read more about the paper, co-authored by Cevat Giray Aksoy, at the link below 👇
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💡Come study the #MiddleEast at King’s! 💡
Explore the new course hub for our MA Politics and Economics of the Middle East in KCL Department of Political Economy
Discover more 👇
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.REDEFINE_ERC is delighted to announce a two-stage CfP. 1. We invite abstracts (max. 250 words) to our panel entitled ‘Infrastructure failures’: the politics and political economy of failed #infrastructure projects to be held at #SASE 2024 (details attached)
'How can government ensure it learns effectively from the past in making public finance decisions' 🏦💷
A special event hosted by Institute for Gov examined a new book co-authored by our academics Dr Maia King and Barbara Piotrowska (@bpiotrowska.bsky.social)
Watch it in full here ⬇️
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Our academic, Dr Fredrick Ajwang spoke to FRANCE 24 English about Kenya's high court extending a block on sending police to Haiti 🇰🇪🇭🇹
Watch here 💻
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Our research on working from home preferences around the world has been featured in The Economist
We have made the microdata available for public use at this link: wfhresearch.com/gswadata/
economist.com/the-world-ahea…
✍️ 'While the release includes more revisions to previously published data by the ONS the big picture remains the same.'
📈 Read Jonathan Portes quick analysis of the latest ONS migration statistics now. ⬇️
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🗣️ The Autumn Statement is imminent, but does the public have enough of a voice?
🚨 NEW: Drawing on the recently released results of the CitizensEcon public engagement project, Chris Holmes argues that there is potential to improve. 👇
ukandeu.ac.uk/public-voice-a…
📉 'Two decades on it is difficult to see the results as anything other than a remarkable success. Pensioner poverty has fallen sharply.'
🚨 NEW: Jonathan Portes defends the state pension triple lock and explains its origins.
ukandeu.ac.uk/in-defence-of-…
It was great talking about my research on the effect of the transition to the knowledge economy on labour market institutions and firms' strategies to secure skills!
Thanks for having me WSI Düsseldorf
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📝'The triple lock isn't perfect; but, alongside other policies, it has boosted pensioner incomes and helped make the broader UK pension system more sustainable.'
Jonathan Portes has authored an article on the future of 'triple-lock' pensions for Political Quarterly
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Peers hear UK has ‘problems’ with its technician workforce: Technicians are “crucial” for applying R&D technologies and Catapults should offer more training, Lords told. (£) Rachel Magee Lords Science & Tech
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Funded PhD opportunity available in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. KCL Department of Political Economy
Please circulate.
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EVENT: The KCL Department of Political Economy Distinguished Lecture in Political Economy
🗓️ 22 November
⏰ 18.00
Professor Helen Thompson POLIS will consider how a finite Earth poses issues for economic growth 🌎📈
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