Daily Telegraph
Pay mothers to stay at home, says study
Catherine Hakim, of the London School of Economics and one of the report's authors, said: ‘Numerous studies into parental values regarding child care have revealed a much greater diversity of parental preferences than the Government would like to believe. One study showed that, in an ideal world, only one third of mothers in Britain would use any child care at all before their child's third birthday.’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/21/nmums121.xml

The Macomb Daily
Autism advocates to rally at Capitol
The event focuses on bills introduced in the House and Senate which provide insurance coverage for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder, up to $50,000 annually. Over a person's life, the cost saving is estimated to be $1.6 to $2.8 million according to the Autism Society of America and a study by the London School of Economics.
http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/042108/loc_local01.shtml

Sydney Morning Herald
Lenders 'need $213b to fix ailing mortgage market'
The former Bank of England policymaker Willem Buiter [chair of European political economy at LSE]said the bank would need to offer loan swaps to financial institutions of at least £100 billion ($213 billion) to succeed in kick-starting the British mortgage market.
http://business.smh.com.au/lenders-need-213b-to-fix-ailing-mortgage-market/
20080420-27ee.html

Washington Times
Bank of England to offer bonds to 'unfreeze' credit
The central bank and the Treasury may offer a swap of $100 billion, BBC reported Saturday. Former Bank of England policy-maker Willem Buiter said that may not be enough. The authorities may need to provide double that amount to revive the mortgage market, he said.
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080421/BUSINESS/336808720/1006

Threats Watch
Water Wars on the Horizon?
Of course, as with many other topics of this variety [Spain’s water shortage], there are people in opposition: ‘People will not fight over water,’ says Mark Zeitoun, from the London School of Economics’ Centre for Environmental Policy and Governance in the UK. ‘But that’s not to say water shortages will not contributing to existing tensions.’
http://threatswatch.org/rapidrecon/2008/04/water-wars-on-the-horizon/

The Australian
Inflation bogy
Article refers to research carried out by academics at LSE.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23572659-5013868,00.html

Sunday 20 April

La Nación
Nicholas Barr: ‘La pobreza requiere una pensión universal’
Interview with Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics at LSE, about poverty relief.
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/edicionimpresa/suplementos/enfoques/nota.asp?nota_id=
1005714&origen=amigoenvio

Bloomberg
Bank of England will unveil swap to ease loan market
Former Bank of England policy maker Willem Buiter, now a London School of Economics professor, said on April 18 the plan's success ‘all depends on the scale' and the central bank could offer assistance on a rolling basis. ‘In total, they would have to do -- not in one big go -- at least 100 billion for it to really actually make a difference to the liquidity position of banks, but also act as the catalyst for getting that market going again,' he said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=abYS23GVPJMY&refer=home
Also in
• El Pais
Reino Unido sale al rescate de la banca
(Source: Lexis)

New Straits Times, Malaysia
Help gets University of London award
The HELP University College has been bestowed an honorary award for academic excellence by the University of London. The award is in recognition of its contribution to the success of the London School of Economics (LSE) external programme. Only six educational institutions in the world have received such an award from the prestigious university. ‘HELP University College is one of the two institutions in Malaysia that received the award,’ said Rosemary Gosling, director of LSE External Study Department.
(Source: Lexis)

Saturday 19 April

Bloomberg
Buiter says UK banks need $200 billion aid from BOE
Former Bank of England policy maker Willem Buiter [chair of European political economy at LSE] said the central bank will need to offer loan swaps to financial institutions of at least 100 billion pounds ($200 billion) to kick-start the UK mortgage market.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aK8s1i4nCWRo&refer=home

Christian Science Monitor
London mayoral race: a contest of eccentrics
Article includes comments from Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at LSE.
(website offline)

Daily Telegraph
China: the new rulers of the world
Review of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna, a PhD student at LSE.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/19/boemm119.xml

Late-edition headlines

Guardian
A land of tea drinking, hokey cokey and rivers of blood
Article by Paul Gilroy, about the 40th anniversary of Enoch Powell's rivers of blood speech. Professor Gilroy is Anthony Giddens Professor in Social Theory at LSE.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/18/britishidentity.race

Imperial College London
Second Grantham climate change research centre for London
Philanthropists Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham are creating a second climate change research centre in London, following their donation of £12 million to Imperial College in 2007 to establish the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, it was announced today. The new research centre will be based at LSE, and will be called the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news
_18-4-2008-11-8-39?newsid=34194

The Lancet Vol 371 (5 April)
Is exposure to media violence a public-health risk?
Article refers to the Harm and Offence in Media Content Review, conducted by Sonia Livingstone, professor of social policy at LSE.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/pdf/Harm%20and%20Offence,%20summary.pdf – for review

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