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17 Dec 2018: The horn of plenty and the breast-feeding mother symbolically linked the work of the lying-in hospital with the Enlightenment concerns of charity, fertility, infant health and economic prosperity.

15 Oct 2018: new anxieties raised by the economic divergences - spatial, educational and international - that have arisen since the 1980s. ... Professor Nava Ashraf will talk about recent research in economics questioning the assumption that human beings are

30 Jul 2018: rival traditional livestock and 3) insect farming has the potential to aid socio-economic mobility.

24 Oct 2018: Despite a turbulent political environment, the weakness of sterling added to underlying economic growth.

13 Dec 2018: READ THE STORY HERE

17 Jul 2018: And a study of a unique historical archive is helping to tell us whether literacy rates or rules governing entry to trades were more important in determining economic growth in early ... One such idea is that governments can help promote economic growth

10 May 2018: Admissions of students identified using other measures of socio-economic disadvantage are also up.

19 Dec 2018: Written neatly inside were thousands of lists that might hold the key to an enduring puzzle in economics – does education fuel economic growth? ... Japan’s economic success in the post-war era was built on a clear gendered division of labour: the

5 Jul 2018: Disruptive technologies, the rise of the ad hoc ‘gig economy’, living longer and the fragile economics of pension provision will mean a multistage employment life: one where retraining happens across the ... and a thriving economic democracy.

6 Jun 2018: We also believe that diversity should be understood in the widest possible sense, including ethnicity, gender, socio-economic background, geography, age and disability.