APO Disability Research Collection (Australia and New Zealand)
Australian Policy collaborating with the National Disability Research Partnership to create a portal of links to research published in Australia and New Zealand. These cover all aspects of economic, social and political policy. They also include government reports and social surveys.
Human Development Report 2025: A matter of choice: people and possibilities in the age of Artificial Intelligence
Human development progress is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown according to the 2025 Human Development Report released on 6 May 2025 by the United Nations Development Programme. The report shows how Artificial Intelligence could reignite development.
The World Elite Database project
The WED is an international consortium of scholars working together to develop a new standardized data regime to study and share data about elites across the world. These are defined as rich list members, top CEOs, elected politicians and top bureaucrats, interest groups (business organisations, lobbies, unions). The website is developing data from 15 nations, […]
IMF revamps data portal
The IMF’s new data portal provides streamlined access to international financial data it is easy to explore and has updated API capabilities.
Economic Wellbeing Explorer
This new data resource has been recently launched by Smart Data Foundry. It intends to enable researchers, policy makers and journalists to explore mapped statistical datasets relating to financial well-being at national, regional, and local levels in the UK. Top-level insights will be available for free at a national and regional level, with deeper insights at a local […]
WTO Tariff & Trade Data
Recently launched, the WTO Tariff & Trade Data is an online platform providing enhanced access to official tariff and trade figures for over 150 economies. The database — currently in its beta version for preliminary release —includes bilateral trade datasets, time series views, and reports on export and import patterns by product and trade partner. […]
2025 Spring Statement resources
UK government background briefing: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10220/Spring Statement Information: https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/spring-statement-2025Forecasts for UK economyOffice of Budget Responsibility- https://obr.uk/ AnalysisIFS analysis: https://ifs.org.uk/collections/spring-statement-2025Institute for Government: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rachel-reeves-spring-statement NIESR: https://niesr.ac.uk/blog/spring-statement-2025-fiscal-rules-growth-pressures-and-policy-choices More links to newspapers and analyses: https://alissresearch.blogspot.com/2025/03/spring-statement-2025.html
Trade Policy Hub
The Trade Policy Hub offers free access to papers and research on core trade and investment policy issues, including public procurement, intellectual property rights, trade and sustainable development, digital trade, digital policies, industrial policy, and economic security. Includes surveys of the impact of Brexit on UK trade.
Trade in non-plastic substitutes
This website tracking international trade in non-plastic substitutes is now available on UN Trade and Development’s Datahub online. Non-plastic substitutes are items manufactured instead of non-renewable plastics and aim to reduce the impact on the environment. Data cover a number of years both global, regionally and by type of product. It also gives export values […]
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