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23 Jun 2016: Except for Rwanda, Ethiopia is the only African country whose economic growth has been consistently high for more than a decade without relying on a natural resource boom. ... Additionally, government provision of transport and energy has been crucial.

15 Jun 2016: These stocks are often considered to be low-risk, because they typically generate high dividends for investors and used to be only moderately affected during periods of economic turmoil. ... The more indebted the firm is, they suggest, the less robust

14 Dec 2016: A key part of the funding will involve training the next generation of cancer researchers - including 45 PhD students - to ensure the brightest scientists are

2 Dec 2016: continuation of those existing policies, which have reduced welfare spending overall in the name of economic austerity. ... Overall, it facilitated the most sustained period of rising economic prosperity in the nation’s history,” the authors observe.

11 Nov 2016: The John Pickard Neurosurgical Laboratories, based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals, will contain purpose built modern laboratories

1 Nov 2016: Our research now shows that investing in elephant conservation is actually smart economic policy for many African countries,” said Dr. ... Dr. Brendan Fisher, an economist at University of Vermont’s Gund Institute for Ecological Economics.

2 Feb 2016: economics. When it became clear nearly ten years ago that neuroscience was growing at an extraordinarily fast rate and across a huge range of disciplinary lines, the University set up Cambridge

7 Dec 2016: The Wellcome/CRUK Gurdon Institute and Wellcome/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute have been named as two of 14 Wellcome Centres announced today, all of which

5 Sep 2016: Type 1 diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in children; around one in 4,000 children under 14 years of age is diagnosed with the disease each

1 Nov 2016: Professor Spiegelhalter has other examples of the use of evidence in medical stories in his sight: “Take, for instance, the recent media stories about a new test for Down’s syndrome

15 Jun 2016: In two of the tests she conducted, grackles showed they were able to problem solve. ... The second, more complex challenge, was a problem-solving test called Aesop’s Fable.

1 Oct 2016: Global Development Council, Chief Economic Advisor for Allianz, and writes regularly for Bloomberg, the Financial Times and Project Syndicate. ... Dr El-Erian is honorary fellow and alumnus of Queens’ (Economics, 1977), a board member of Cambridge

21 Oct 2016: In what looks very like a tit-for-tat downgrading of bilateral relations, Russia and America have traded diplomatic insults in recent weeks over nuclear weapons, geopolitics and economics, prompting speculation ... David Reynolds, Professor of

2 May 2016: Sudden oak death – caused by Phytophthora ramorum, a fungus-like pathogen related to potato blight – has killed millions of trees over hundreds of square

26 Oct 2016: It is amplified by the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative, and by the resoluteness of African growth in the face of an economic downturn.

14 Nov 2016: The team are also developing tests for circulating tumour DNA. It’s now known that DNA isn’t present just in cells: it floats around the bloodstream. ... Imagine a child going into a clinic for a five-year checkup, and having a blood test which

21 Jan 2016: The World Economic Forum (WEF) published its annual Global Risks Report in the run up to its annual meeting in Davos.

27 Jan 2016: This was the fourth year of operation for the Enterprise Fund, which was announced as part of the SEIS programme in the government’s 2012 budget, established to stimulate economic growth.

15 Nov 2016: There’s a danger that they tend to encourage effort substitution – what people often refer to as ‘teaching to the test’,” explains Dixon-Woods. ... Medical science tends to prioritise trials and particular types of evidence, whereas engineering

7 Nov 2016: In the wake of the Reformation, people were expected to comply with new rules on dress – but, as always, there were some who were determined to test the limits of authority.