Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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McKinsey & Co, 16th January 2023
Friday Reading Edition 138 (27th January 2023)
Will the world move to solve its structural problems and make superior short-term choices? Yes or no: that’s the first question on the test.
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 4th August 2022
Friday Reading Edition 121 (2nd September 2022)
The war in Ukraine has exacerbated existing trade-offs for policymakers, including between fighting inflation and safeguarding economic recovery and between providing support to those affected and rebuilding fiscal buffers.
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Control Risks, 4th August 2022
Friday Reading Edition 120 (26th August 2022)
The frequency of strikes and other types of labour unrest rose in 2021 and remains elevated in 2022. Here is an outlook for labour activism over the next six months, and where it is likely to have the greatest impact.
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 8th June 2022
The OECD’s latest Economic Outlook projects global growth to decelerate sharply to around 3% this year and 2.8% in 2023, well below the recovery projected in the previous Economic Outlook last December.
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Cabinet Office, 25th May 2022
Final report by Sue Grey, the Cabinet Office Second Permanent Secretary, on investigations into alleged gatherings during Covid restrictions.
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KPMG, 1st April 2022
Friday Reading Edition 102 (14th April 2022)
Released April 2022, this report considers the impact of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, as well as a range of localised issues on the economic outlook, and examine three potential scenarios of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and their impact on global economic growth and inflation.
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World Economic Forum, 31st January 2022
Friday Reading Edition 97 (11th March 2022)
The emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was accompanied by a new wave of misinformation being shared online. COVID misinformation, not all of which is shared maliciously, can undermine public health efforts to control the global pandemic. Tackling false information needs to happen at all levels and should be focused on accurate and positive messaging.
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Imperial College London, 26th January 2022
Friday Reading Edition 91 (28th January 2022)
Coronavirus infections in England may no longer be declining at the rapid rate seen in early January, according to new swab testing data.
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World Economic Forum, 25th January 2022
Friday Reading Edition 91 (28th January 2022)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) painted a downbeat picture of the global economic outlook, as it revised down its growth forecasts citing supply disruptions and the ongoing pandemic as two factors hampering recovery.
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CBI, 24th January 2022
Friday Reading Edition 91 (28th January 2022)
Learn more about the government’s updated COVID-19 measures following the ending of Plan B in England this week, and what it means for firms.
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