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Contributor(s): Dr Ethan Ilzetzki | Expect central banks to continue to raise interest rates in order to reduce pressures on the economy’s limited supply. With prices continuing to soar in the UK and beyond, LSE’s Dr Ethan Ilzetzki explains how central banks will act on their mandates to keep inflation low. This is the second video in our inflation explainer series featuring insight from LSE researchers.

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Contributor(s): Professor Nicholas Barr | Demand is going up, supply is going down, and costs are rising. Everything that causes inflation is operating together. In this short video, LSE’s Professor Nick Barr explains what's happening to cause prices to rise so drastically in 2022 — not just in the UK, but around the world. Catch up with more from this series, where LSE academics explore the inflation situation.

Explore our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and commentary on the state of the UK economy and its future.

Contributor(s): | Professor Myria Georgiou compares the warm welcome given to Ukrainian refugees to the suspicion extended towards people who come from other parts of the world. 

Read more about Professor Georgiou's research: https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/myria-georgiou

Contributor(s): | LSE Professor Emily Jackson’s research into egg freezing has led to a change in UK law, giving women more freedom over when to start a family and taking away the pressure that their eggs may have to be destroyed. Find out more about this research in #LSEResearchForTheWorld: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/resear...

Contributor(s): Dr Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe | Entrepreneurs can have a tough time having their business idea heard. There are just so many businesses trying to get investment from Venture Capitalists that many great business ideas aren't seen. Alongside this; race, gender and education unfairly come into the equation when Venture Capitalists are thinking about talking to entrepreneurs. LSE research looks into one Venture Capitalist Fund who are taking a more scientific approach to shortlisting business ideas, whilst also asking the question of whether entrepreneurs who do not get funding still have value added to them by going through a process called Due Diligence.

Contributor(s): | The Liberian dollar is the nation’s official currency. So, why do so many Liberians use US dollars for everyday transactions?

A dual currency system has existed in Liberia since the late 1800s. Professor Leigh Gardner from the Department of Economic History at LSE has examined the government’s struggle to re-assert the Liberian dollar over time. Her research was the subject of a physical display in the Value of Money exhibition at the National Museum of American History.

🔴 For a virtual version of the display see https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/u-s-dollars-in-liberia/xNXunzUXDYnD8iEe.

🔴 Read on the National Museum of American History’s blog: https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/dollars-liberia

🔴 Find out more about Professor Gardner’s upcoming book, Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/sovereignty-without-power/1AE1550713B8F8FC4AA55143F475AE00#

Contributor(s): | When the government, under austerity budgets from 2010, cut funding for social landlords and for multiple neighbourhood services, these communities suffered a significant loss of support. Residents face additional social stigma associated with living in social housing.

In response, LSE Housing and Communities co-founded the Housing Plus Academy, which aims to close the knowledge gap between those who make decisions about social housing, and those who live in it. The Academy organises residential Think Tanks for social landlords, frontline workers, policymakers and – crucially – social housing tenants. Findings from each event are reported to government, meaning that tenants’ voices are fed directly into decision-making.

The urgent need to address long-term failures in social housing management was brought into sharp focus following the catastrophic 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster in West London. Following the tragedy, LSE Housing and Communities ran a bespoke programme that included tenants, landlords, government, and other professionals. This informed their "Lessons from Grenfell" report which has been used to influence government policy. The first lesson: it is crucial to listen to tenants.

🔴 Find out more about this research in #LSEResearchForTheWorld: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/resear...

🔴 Find out more about LSE Housing and Communities, Housing Plus Academy and Energy Plus Academy, visit https://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/lsehousing

Contributor(s): Nikita Simpson, Professor Laura Bear | As we emerge from it, we beginning to see the legacies of stigma and trauma that have disproportionately impacted certain groups – especially marginalised groups who are underserved by the state.

This participatory film animates longer-term ethnographic research conducted over the past 24 months across the UK by LSE’s Covid and Care Research Group, led by Professor Laura Bear.

It highlights the story of psychotherapist Suad Duale and the Somali single mothers who have stepped up to support their community in this time. Co-directed by Duale, Dr Nikita Simpson and Dr James Rattee, it provides insight into the profound work done by some people to ferry their communities through this crisis.

Contributor(s): Timo Leiter, Dr Swenja Surminski, Declan Conway | The effects of climate change are already proving devastating for people and for our planet. The new IPCC report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, shows us that we must act now to reduce emissions and prepare for current and future climate risks.

The Grantham Research Institute produces cutting edge research on climate adaptation, and its researchers are among thousands of experts worldwide to author and review the IPCC report. Here, Swenja Surminski, Timo Leiter and Declan Conway explain how managing the risks of climate change should be embedded in all planning decisions taken by governments, NGOs, businesses, and investors, and how investing in climate adaptation now saves money later.

Contributor(s): Professor Tomila Lankina | How did the Imperial Russian bourgeoisie endure such a seismic revolution? And what can this stubborn reproduction of social structures tell us about addressing inequality today?

In her new book, Professor Tomila Lankina challenges materialist notions of inequality, instead highlighting the significance of social, cultural, and educational capital in the perpetuation of social hierarchies – even under the most brutal communist dictatorship bent on obliterating the social remnants of the past.

🔴 Read more about this research in #LSEResearchForTheWorld:

🔴 Find out more about Professor Tomila Lankina’s book: The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia, Cambridge University Press, December 2021 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/estate-origins-of-democracy-in-russia/3EBD479CE270DB1647CD5E6A57F1C121