"In our view, the most likely result will be simple, direct taxes on meat and animal products. Our latest research, published in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, considered how an environmental tax on meat could work."
Read about it here in The Conversation. "The current economic settings are weird. That creates novel challenges for the central bankers on the front lines of the efforts to tame rampant inflation rates around the globe."
Read Sydney Morning Herald article here Read all about Burgernomics here
"Fresh food prices leaped 4.5% in May, driven by rising costs of labour since Brexit and fertiliser since invasion of Ukraine". Keep reading here at The Guardian.
Some good comparisons here... and considers both nominal GDP and GDP at PPP rates...
Read more about global inequality on the IMF website here
"In a preliminary finding, it said the US company may have broken competition law by preventing rivals from accessing its "tap and go" technology."
"According to the Commission, this behaviour from Apple has an "exclusionary effect" on competitors and "leads to less innovation and less choice for consumers for mobile wallets on iPhones". In response, the tech giant said its payment system was only one of many options available to European consumers." Read about it here The war in Ukraine is set to cause the "largest commodity shock" since the 1970s, the World Bank has warned.... read here.
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Maree SpraggonTeacher of IB Economics at the American School of Budapest Archives
February 2024
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