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Leading scientists made Honorary Freeman of the City of Nottingham
Two Nottingham scientists whose discoveries led to the development of groundbreaking developments in medicine – the MRI scanner and ibuprofen – are set to become Honorary Freemen of the City. Sir Peter Mansfield, the British inventor of MRI, led a research team at The University of Nottingham between 1960 and 1993.  Sir Peter was awarded ...

Why has FDI followed different paths in China and India?
Written by Karolina Wysoczanska. Over the last few decades, China and India have made substantial improvements in the structural transformation of their economies by allowing foreign firms to compete  in markets from which they were previously barred. At the outset of reforms, the conditions of both economies were similar, and both were under the influence of ...

What we can learn from the Russian internet… or why politicians use Twitter.
Written by Bettina Renz. State control over most of the national media in Russia has meant that Russian newspapers and TV today are a lot less interesting as a source of political research than they were in the 1990s. The situation regarding the internet is different. This is relatively free and online content in Russia ...