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2024
28
November
2024
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11:16
Europe/London
A panel of scientific experts will provide education policy makers with advice on strategic and emerging issues through a new Science Advisory Council, the Department for Education has recently announced.Dr Sonya Krutikova, Professor of Economics, …
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16
October
2024
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12:43
Europe/London
Arthur Sangang Tuzolana, an Economics student now starting his second year, has been awarded a prestigious Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship.
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15
October
2024
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11:03
Europe/London
An economist who studied at The University of Manchester has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics for his groundbreaking research into understanding wealth disparities between different nations.
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22
March
2024
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16:59
Europe/London
On Wednesday, 20 March 2024, The University of Manchester's Department of Criminology, in collaboration with the Department of Economics and the UoM Bicentennial Team, organised a landmark event commemorating 30 years of ground-breaking quantitative …
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16
February
2024
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17:08
Europe/London
The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development announces that the inaugural Hajnal Lecture will be given by Noam Yuchtam, the Drummond Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford and All Souls College …
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24
January
2024
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15:24
Europe/London
On Monday, 19 February 2024, the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development will announce the first awardee of its inaugural Hajnal Lecture.This lecture series is named after the late John Hajnal, in recognition of pivotal contributions to …
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2023
08
December
2023
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14:45
Europe/London
A new study from experts at The University of Manchester and the University of East Anglia has revealed why some 鈥榚co goods鈥� may fare better than others as a UK recession looms.
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12
June
2023
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15:00
Europe/London
The number of medication errors occurring when people go into, or leave hospital, would reduce by 40% from 1.8 million to 1.1 million if information about medicines could be shared more easily electronically, University of Manchester health …
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23
May
2023
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10:14
Europe/London
New analysis of the government鈥檚 Community Renewal Fund allocation has found that the North missed out on funding to the tune of 拢21 million.
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22
May
2023
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10:49
Europe/London
An inspirational student who graduated from her degree at The University of Manchester despite having incurable brain cancer has sadly passed away.
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2022
22
December
2022
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13:33
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Researchers from The University of Manchester have found that people living with food hypersensitivities would be willing to pay a substantial amount of money to live without the inconvenience, anxiety and pain caused by their conditions.
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21
September
2022
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15:06
Europe/London
The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development is a new interdisciplinary research group in economic history and comparative development at the University of Manchester.The lab will promote cutting-edge research on economic growth and development, …
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28
June
2022
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12:00
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Professor of Economics at The University of Manchester, Rachel Griffith, is one of six distinguished individuals set to receive an honorary degree from Keele University. Professor Griffith will receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters in a ceremony …
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21
April
2022
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12:38
Europe/London
Researchers from The University of Manchester and University of Navarra have examined the value of politically connected firm directors to the Chinese elite, in terms of getting preferential access to resources.
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2021
11
January
2021
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15:24
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The New Year Honours lists mark the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the UK.Rachel Griffith is Professor of Economics in the School of Social Sciences and Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). …
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2020
11
November
2020
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09:34
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Since the global financial crisis, there has been a renewed effort to emphasize financial frictions in designing closed- and open-economy macroeconomic models for monetary and macroprudential policy analysis. Professor Agénor draws on the …
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20
July
2020
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11:30
Europe/London
Mohammad Javad was awarded the James Lincoln PhD studentship in Economics. The studentship is inspired by the life and legacy of Dr James Lincoln, a Lecturer in Economics at the University, who passed away in 2019.
Dr Lincoln carried out …
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01
July
2020
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14:33
Europe/London
Certificates have been awarded to the following individuals for their high-quality teaching, professionalism, and commitment to the students' learning experience.Teaching Assistant Awards 2019-2020First prizeLotanna EmediegwuRunners upAtiyeh …
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2019
07
November
2019
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11:42
Europe/London
New research from The University of Manchester explores the strategies used by latecomer economies to play catch-up to the digital world.
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01
July
2019
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14:14
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Certificates have been awarded to the following individuals for their high-quality teaching, professionalism, and commitment to the students' learning experience.Teaching Assistant Awards 2018-2019First prizeStephen NolanRunners upEman …
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30
April
2019
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14:39
Europe/London
To address this gap, Professor Dan Brockington of the University of Sheffield and Dr Nicola Banks of The University of Manchester set out to map and understand the UK’s development sector.
Their research produced new insights that show a …
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28
February
2019
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10:11
Europe/London
Bangladesh has been a development success story in recent years. The country made remarkable progress in poverty alleviation prior to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline of 2015 and has over performed on multiple social indicators, such …
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2018
08
February
2018
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10:15
Europe/London
The Sicilian mafia is arguably one of the most famous – or infamous – institutions in the Western world. After its first appearance in Sicily in the 1870s it soon infiltrated the economic and political spheres of Italy and the US and …
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05
January
2018
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10:55
Europe/London
Diane Coyle, Professor of Economics at The University of Manchester, has been recognised “for services to economics and the public understanding of economics”.
Prof Coyle was made an OBE in 2009.
She said: “I just get on with …
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2017
01
November
2017
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08:00
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The UK’s people, places and businesses will only achieve their potential if there is a complete overhaul of how the government views industrial strategy, according to a major new report published today by the Industrial Strategy Commission.
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08
August
2017
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09:00
Europe/London
A scheme launched by the Department of Health in 2011 to help patients stick to their drug regimens has been so successful, that in its first five years, it will save NHS England £517.6m in the long-term, a team of health economists has …
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10
July
2017
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09:00
Europe/London
A major new report published today by the Industrial Strategy Commission says that the UK has a compelling need to introduce a framework for strategic economic management.
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29
June
2017
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11:02
Europe/London
The University of Manchester has appointed chairman of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, as Honorary Professor of Economics.
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2016
08
December
2016
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11:31
Europe/London
Linking GPs’ pay to their performance has no discernible effect on their job satisfaction, a University of Manchester study of almost 2,000 UK doctors over a four-year period has found.
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22
June
2016
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15:32
Europe/London
In the event of a close result on Friday, the following experts are available to speak to the media about the constitutional, political and economic implications on Britain.
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