Posts Tagged ‘economics’
Mar. 20, 2013 | Filed under: Arts and Humanities, Business, Law and Society, Media Release, News Feed | Tags: business, Craig Mitton, Dept. of Political Science, economics, Faculty of Arts, federal budget, Gerald Baier, health care, Human Early Learning Partnership, Kevin Milligan, medicine, Paul Beaudry, Paul Kershaw, policy, politics, UBC experts list, Vancouver School of Economics
UBC experts are available to provide media commentary and analysis on the March 21 federal budget.
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Feb. 19, 2013 | Filed under: Hot Topics, Media Advisory, News Feed | Tags: British Columbia, business, economics, experts list, Faculty of Arts, politics
UBC experts are available for commentary on today’s B.C. budget, which is expected around 2 p.m.
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Dec. 11, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: bitumen, business, economics, Enbridge Northern Gateway, Kitamat, Prince Rupert, Rashid Sumaila, sustainability, tanker spill, UBC Fisheries Centre
UBC researchers estimate losses of $300-million, cleanup costs of up to $9.6-billion.
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Dec. 5, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed, Uncategorized | Tags: arts, business, economics, Education, Mark Carney, school of economics
An expansion of Canada’s top-ranked economics department will create the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, a new global centre for research and learning on the world’s most pressing economic issues.
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Nov. 26, 2012 | Filed under: Hot Topics, Media Advisory, News Feed | Tags: America, arts, business, economics, experts list, fiscal cliff, Obama, U.S. politics, United States
University of British Columbia business, economics and politics experts are available to comment on how U.S. economic challenges will impact Canadian and global economies.
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Feb. 20, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: AAAS, AAAS2012, ecological, economics, energy, food, Rashid Sumaila, security, sustainability, UBC Fisheries Centre
A growing world population, mixed with the threat of climate change and mounting financial problems, has prompted University of British Columbia researchers to measure the overall ‘health’ of 150 countries around the world.
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Jan. 23, 2012 | Filed under: Expert Profile, Hot Topics, Media Release, News Feed, News Tip | Tags: banking, business, Davos, debt. the Euro, economics, financial markets, governance, inequality, international trade, labour economics, monetary issues, Occupy Wall Street, regulation, wealth disparity, World Economic Forum
With the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, approaching (Jan. 25-29) and another year of uncertainty expected in global financial markets, UBC experts are available to comment on international and national economic issues.
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Jan. 6, 2012 | Filed under: Hot Topics, Media Release, News Feed, News Tip | Tags: Aboriginal, bitumen, business, community, economics, economy, Enbridge Northern Gateway, environment, Forestry, Keystone XL, oil, oil sands, politics, research, Sauder, sauder school of business, sustainability, U.S. elections
UBC experts are available to provide media commentary on two controversial pipeline projects to carry Alberta bitumen to U.S. and foreign markets.
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Mar. 23, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: business, connections, economics, expertise, lobbying, Matilde Bombardini, US Federal lobbyist
When it comes to lobbying, it’s not what you know, but who you know that matters, according to new research from the University of British Columbia and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
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