Andrew Dunn
Subscribe to Andrew Dunn's postsBloomberg: Sino-British trade
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced a series of agreements on trade and investment during a recent visit to China. Bloomberg functions help monitor the impact on the Chinese yuan and Dim Sum bond issuance as the U.K. and China strengthen their economic relationship. You may find the case study document under the […]
Bloomberg: Economic surprises
The September U.S. non-farm payrolls report released on Oct. 22 surprised economists with only 148,000 jobs created, versus the consensus forecast of 180,000. Bloomberg has tools to help gauge the impact of economic data surprises on the market. You may find the case study document under the function FFM on your Bloomberg terminals.
Our marathon
Northeastern University Launches Digital Archive of Boston Marathon Bombings Entitled Our Bombing it has crowd sourced journalist materials. It includes photographs, interviews and eye witness testimony. There are also social media postings and stories from the Boston Globe.
Africa Open Data
Africa open data Useful initiative of the Open Africa Platform which is part of the Ujuzi Initiative and created and funded by the Africa Media Initiative (AMI), the World Bank Institute (WBI) and Google. It aims to become the largest central repository for Government, Civil Society, Corporate and Donor Agency Data. There are currently over […]
Street protests and their repression
International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations released a report: Take back the streets about the repression of street protests worldwide. Countries covered include: U.S., U.K., Canada, Israel, Egypt, Argentina, South Africa, Kenya, and Hungary. The 35 page section on UK includes coverage of anti-terrorism measures and street protest.
Social mobility and child poverty
The Social Mobility and Child Poverty (SMCP) Commission releases major report. This body aims to monitors the progress of government and others in improving social mobility and reducing child poverty in the United Kingdom. Its official website has press releases and papers. Politics live blog from the Guardian has some interesting rounds up of twitter […]
Global Slavery Index
Global slavery index. Published this week by the Walk Free Foundation. A ranking of 162 countries around the world, based on a combined measure of three factors: estimated prevalence of modern slavery by population, a measure of child marriage, and a measure of human trafficking in and out of a country. On this theme see […]
Cornell University Political Americana Collection
Cornell University Political Americana Collection Hundreds of images of political commemorative items from the USA from 1789 to 1980. These include cartoons, election leaflets, badges, flyers and lots of election materials. The majority of the collection was donated to Cornell University by private collector Susan H. Douglas between 1957 and 1961.
Corruption
Exporting corruption: Progress report 2013: assessing enforcement of the OECD Conventionon combating bribery Full text report from Transparency International View other earlier reports from Transparency International The World Bank Governance and Anti-corruption section also has some useful reports on this topic. See in particular worldwide governance indicators 1996-2012 which covers over 200 nations for six […]
Population growth
Population Council develop new tool for assessing factors driving future population growth in a country. The decomposition service from Devinfo calculates the contributions of different demographic factors (wanted and un-wanted fertility, mortality, migration, and age structure) to population growth. It is based on the medium variant population projection of the United Nations from 2010 to […]
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