Lower Sixth Summer Presentations

Here are a few starting points for your research:

Best and Worst Countries to live in:

Use the information from this earlier post here

Supermarkets : good or bad

To start, you might wish to visit this site, where a major supermarket puts all their propoganda as to why they are so great. It is here

Much better is tescopoly, which highlights all the concerns it has

The Competition Commission recently finsihed their investigation into the grocery market. This is their contents page here

An in-depth collection of resources from The Guardian here

Worth typing in a supermarket's name into the BBC's search engine to find many, many recent articles.

Friends of the Earth have some limited information on their campaign here

And here is a very detailed report from Corporatewatch called : "What's wrong with supermarkets?"

Climate Change : is economics the problem or the solution

Here's a good place to start from the BBC

And another good portal is here from the Guardian for more in-depth analysis

Friends of the Earth have their usual punchy shocking facts and figures

The Stern review of the economics of climate change was published earlier this year. Here is the index page. you are not going to be able to read all of the report, but do look at the executive summaries.

This gives an overview of all the different possible policy areas climate change covers

Here is the Earth Policy Institute's website; it contains some interesting articles, videos and podcasts

Are we going to meet the Millenium Development Goals

Pretty much everything you need to know is here from the UN all about the goals

Gapminder.org will of course contain lots of relevant data and heart-stopping graphing opportunities

Here is a campaign goup determined to meet the goals by 2015 and contains lots of reports, videos and articles on the progress made so far.

Lastly the ever-informative quasi public good which is the one and only BBC has in-depth coverage and some very good graphs here

How to win a Nobwel Prize in Economics

This one should be easy to research. The details of who has won the prize for Economics is here. It is ofm course up to you who to choose anbd research, but bear in mind, it might be easier for you to pick someone who has had a direct impact on what you are currently studying. Joseph Stiglitz is someone who is leading the way in Development Economics