Collaboration with the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) on Next Generation Economics competition

Greater diversity leads to better economists and smarter policy decisions.

The FCDO, in collaboration with the Hub, runs an annual essay writing competition, inviting UK school students to write about big economic challenges to support early interest and entry into the economics profession pipeline. The Next Generation Economics Competition aims to improve diversity in the economics profession.

The competition aims to:

• Inspire the next generation of economists. Our competition aims to demonstrate how economics is a vital tool for answering important, urgent policy questions.
• Stimulate ideas from the next generation on one of the biggest economic challenges facing this generation.
• Help the next generation of economists to be even more diverse and open-minded than the current generation:
  We encourage you to enter the competition, whatever your background (and however much you know about economics). Find out more about diversity in the economics profession.

Find out more about the competition questions and how to participate via the FCDO Next Generation Economics Competition page.

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