Why supermarkets are siding with farmers over inheritance tax

By: Kamran Mahroof, Associate Professor, Supply Chain Analytics, University of Bradford In recent years, British farmers have faced growing pressures, from Brexit to COVID and the Ukraine war. For some of them you can now add planned inheritance tax (IHT) reforms – announced in the budget last autumn – to that list. The proposals to cut certain agricultural reliefs sparked […]
Goodwill created a new high school for dropouts − it led to better jobs and higher wages

By: Patrick Turner, Associate Research Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame When Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana realized most of the clients in its job-training program lacked a high school diploma, it set out to address the issue. In 2010, with the help of per-pupil funding from the state, the nonprofit opened The Excel […]
How ‘dupes’, fast fashion and China’s economic slowdown spell disaster for the luxury sector

By: Teresa Sádaba, Dean at ISEM Fashion Business School, Universidad de Navarra Alarm bells are ringing across the high-end sector. 2024 did not end as luxury brands had hoped, and the figures published by the sector’s main conglomerates painted a picture of slowdown and some signs of exhaustion during the last quarter of 2024. […]