World Cities Culture Report 2012
http://www.worldcitiesculturereport.com/ Produced by the Mayor of London; the biggest international survey of its kind. It has collected an unprecedented amount of data on the scope and impact of the cultural assets and activities that are produced and consumed in 12 major cities: Berlin, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Mumbai, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney […]
The Africa Desk
http://www.africadesk.ac.uk/ A new portal designed for African studies scholars. Created by the Africa Desk is collaboration between the British Academy and the African Studies Association of the UK, with support from The Association of Commonwealth Universities and SCOLMA. It will provide free access to the latest edition of the ASAUK Directory of Africanists in Britain, […]
Gender equality data
World Bank: http://datatopics.worldbank.org/gender/ United Nations Commission for Europe statistics database: section on men and women in Europe http://www.unece.org/stats/gender/database.htm Social Institutions and Gender Index measure of gender discrimination in 102 non-OECD nations. Covers civil liberties, family and ownership rights: http://genderindex.org/ Gender and Land rights database – free access to information from the FAO: http://www.fao.org/gender/landrights IPU (Interparliamentary […]
Ready to research
http://www.readytoresearch.ac.uk/ Great site created by the Open University, in partnership with the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester, and Manchester Information and Associated Service as part of the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) project. It aims to provide a portal to free OER resources for research students with an emphasis on students new to […]
How happy are you? First Annual ONS Experimental Subjective Well-being Results
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in the UK http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/wellbeing/measuring-subjective-wellbeing-in-the-uk/first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/index.html was released this week by the Office of National Statistics. Release includes statistical tables by geographical location. The Guardian has a good graph of locations http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jul/24/happiness-wellbeing-map-britain For an international comparison Gallup launched a world pessimism index – which concluded that Greeks were most unhappy! http://www.gallup.com/poll/156137/Worldwide-Greeks-Pessimistic-Lives.aspx The New Economics Foundation […]
United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN)
http://unsdn.org/ This new web portal was launched by the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs as a pilot project, aiming to share knowledge and good practices among social development professionals worldwide on ageing, civil society, cooperatives, disability, employment, family, indigenous peoples, poverty, social integration, technology and youth. It […]
Global Economic Prospects June 2012
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/EXTGBLPROSPECTSAPRIL/0,, menuPK:659178%7EpagePK:64218926%7EpiPK:642189537EtheSitePK:659149,00.html Latest world bank report released. Track the latest economic trends. The website includes global forecasts and regional outlooks. Get mappings of the data on the World Bank data site. http://data.worldbank.org/topic/economic-policy-and-external-debt The European Central Bank has the latest Eurozone economic and financial data http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/keyind/html/sdds.en.html European Economic Sentiment Indicator http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/db_indicators/surveys/ is a monthly leading indicator compiled […]
Measuring Child Poverty
New league tables of child poverty in the world’s rich countries just released by UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 10 http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/660 It uses data from the European Union’s Statistics on Incomes and Living Conditions survey of 125,000 households in 31 European countries. Other useful websites for obtaining facts, figures and reports about poverty and British children […]
New York Times Archive
We have electronic access to the full text of the New York Times for 1851-2008 and an index for 1851 to 1993 which enables searching on specific subject terms. This resource is displayed on the A-Z database list. For more information see http://www.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/n/new-york-times
Measuring financial inclusion: the Global Findex Database
http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093 &entityID=000158349_20120419083611 First analysis of the new indexed launched recently by the World Bank which provides individual data on savers and borrowers worldwide. The 61 page report by Asli Demirguc-Kunt & Leora Klapperfinds that 50% of adults worldwide do not have bank accounts many report problems with access that could be easily solved by changes […]
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