The way that crises can effect structural unemployment as people’s skills deteriorate leading to ‘lasting scars on both workers and the economy.’ Seems like a shorter period of time in this specific crisis as lots of workers were put back to work in autumn. Also, the impact may be less…

Turkey (An Emerging Market Economy) — Established 1919 Population 83,154,997 Population Density 105/km2 GDP $2.464 trillion GDP per Capita $9,683 HDI 0.806 Gini 43.0 19th largest economy 13th largest economy by PPP Produced 1.3 million motor vehicles in 2015 Ghana (Rapidly Growing Country) Independent from the UK since 1957 239,567km2 4.61% water 31,072,940 people PPP GDP $226 billion PPP GDP…

The 2008 financial crash was caused by a huge number of vulnerabilities in the global, and especially American, financial housing system. One of the primary causes of the crash was the subprime mortgage crisis, due to the collapse of housing prices after irresponsible lending practices by many banks, causing a…

Rather than going for a lockdown like many other countries, Sweden opted to take a personal responsibility focused approach, letting the citizens voluntarily socially distance. This interesting strategy was relatively unique to Sweden, but hasn’t seen a huge amount of success, placing Sweden ninth highest in deaths per million (interestingly…

Microsoft is a company that’s often praised for its corporate social responsibility. It has already committed to net zero waste by 2030, and the elimination of single use plastics by 2025. Both of these steps should go a long way to reducing its carbon footprint and therefore massively benefit the…

There’s two main problems with having a lot of inequality in society — inefficient allocation of resources and social unrest. The inefficient allocation of resources point is based off the diminishing marginal returns of money — basically the more five pounds you have the less worth the next five pounds…