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Reforming the Portuguese VAT system

14 May 2013

Recommendations by professor rita de la feria led to reforms implemented in the portugal’s 2012 state budget which boosted the efficiency of tax and generated savings of 1. 2 per cent gdp

Carrier bag levy provoked media response worldwide

14 May 2013

Social scientists from the esrc’s centre for business relationships, accountability, sustainability and society (brass) at cardiff university have developed a new methodology that allows findings to...

Validating cross-national surveys

14 May 2013

One of the challenges of using cross-national surveys for policy and practice is the need to reliably compare results from different countries. The latent variable modelling of categorical data projec...

Hospital competition in the National Health Service

14 May 2013

Researchers from the centre for economic performance and the spatial economics research centre analysed the impact of reforms in health care, where private hospitals could compete with nhs hospitals o...

Identifying gaps in the regulation of nanotechnologies

22 May 2013

Nanotechnologies - tiny devices and systems on a nanoscale - are developing so fast that regulation has been struggling to keep up. In recent years there have been growing fears about the potential ri...

The human element of surgery

20 October 2011

A new tool assessing the quality of team-related behaviours of the core members of an operating theatre team has been mandated for national use by the national patient safety agency and implemented in...

New picture of UK innovation

21 July 2011

Innovation in the uk is not restricted to high-tech and pharmaceutical industries. Right across the country, innovation is turning up in unexpected places and firms. Also, innovation is not just about...

Low carbon technology to developing countries

20 May 2013

Policy recommendations from the sussex energy group have shaped the uk government's position for climate change negotiations, as well as informing the chilean and indian governments on technology tran...

Gauging financial risk online

20 May 2013

Award-winning psychological research has underpinned the development of electronic financial advice software which delivers computer-based feedback on financial decisions, leading to commercial resear...

Game time for pupils

09 October 2012

Missionmaker, a software tool enabling teenagers to create their own computer games, is now used in over 200 schools and is part of the institute of education's masters programmes.

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