Posted by: Dora Fazekas
Publish date: 1st June, 2021 | 8:59am1/6/2021
Dóra Fazekas explores what impact climate change will have on assets and pension funds.
Are fund managers already assessing these risks on savings?
What do they need to adequately assess the threats and prepare for the challenges to come?
A recent out of court settlemen…
Senior Adviser Andrew Sentance explores the drivers behind the projected long-term cost of the global pandemic. Andrew argues that countering the long-term impact of Covid-19 needs to be high up on the economic policy agenda both nationally and internationally.
The Covid pande…
Posted by: Richard Lewney
Publish date: 19th May, 2021 | 8:52am19/5/2021
Richard Lewney, Chair of Cambridge Econometrics, shares five key outcomes from a joint modelling project with UN PAGE estimating the likely impacts of South Africa’s Covid-19 Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan. Richard suggests that there is an opportunity for South Africa…
Posted by: Jon Stenning
Publish date: 4th May, 2021 | 10:04am4/5/2021
Jon Stenning, Head of Environment, welcomes Joe Biden’s commitment to evidence-based policy development.
He urges policy makers at Federal and State-levels to use robust economic tools to develop effective decarbonisation policies.
America’s potential pathway to net zero
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Posted by: Adam Brown
Publish date: 9th April, 2021 | 8:52am9/4/2021
Principal Consultant Adam Brown questions just how effective the UK’s levelling up agenda is, and suggests that the UK needs to take the time to diagnose regional inequality issues through a systems approach.
‘Levelling up’ is the current buzz-phrase within UK politics a…
Posted by: Jen Dicks
Publish date: 29th March, 2021 | 11:32am29/3/2021
Project Manager Jennifer Dicks shares three ways the UK Shared Socioeconomic Pathways project can help the climate resilience research community here in the UK.
As we approach the end of our UK-SSPs project, we are bringing the various outputs of the project together. These ou…
Posted by: Andrew Sentance
Publish date: 25th March, 2021 | 10:23am25/3/2021
Senior Adviser Andrew Sentance comments on the latest news on UK inflation arguing that given inflation is rising and not falling, policy-makers must remain vigilant.
The headline news on UK inflation this week was that the key measure of consumer prices – Consumer Prices In…
Posted by: Dora Fazekas
Publish date: 24th March, 2021 | 11:52am24/3/2021
Managing Director of Cambridge Econometrics Hungary Dóra Fazekas shares 5 key takeaways from an online UK-Hungary roundtable on green economic recovery.
Last year, I facilitated an online roundtable event on green economic recovery in Hungary hosted by the British Embass…
We interviewed Economist Zsófi Kőműves from the Cambridge Econometrics Team in Hungary covering her work highlights so far, what inspired her to become an economist and what she likes to do in her spare time.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your role at Cambrid…
Posted by: Cornelia Suta
Publish date: 18th March, 2021 | 3:49pm18/3/2021
Through our work for Technequality, an EU Horizon 2020 project, Principal Consultant Cornelia Suta explores how the age of automation could affect the gender employment gap. How will the combined impact of Covid-19 and the adoption of technology on the labour market affect the ge…