Cross-national income database
Luxembourg Income Database (LIS) http://www.lisdatacenter.org/ This data service includes household and person-level micro data on income, demography, employment, and expenditures from countries all over the world, many from 1968 onwards. Browse by country. Free registration required for access. The site also includes working papers. http://www.lisdatacenter.org/lis-wp-webapp/app/search-workingpapers These cover topics relating to income employment, poverty many based on […]
United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
2000 onwards free online: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mbs/app/mbssearch2.aspx Covering more than 200 nations worldwide, this service offers a quick snapshot of over 100 major economic and social indicators. Remember that access to the main UN series of data (United Nations sources) via their UNData website. Browse country files, see the full list of databases and get news on […]
European Politics and Policy blog (EUROPP) launched
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/about-europp/ Launched this week, a new blog from the London School of Economics. It aims to provide topical comment and discussion covering all aspects of European governance and decision making, both at the EU level and national level. It will include regular book reviews, and Brussels blog round ups.
New Economics Foundation
http://neweconomics.org/ Aims to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environmental and social issues.
UNESCO’s inaugural World Radio Day.
Held on 13th February. Find general statements and news on the website: http://www.worldradioday.org/ It sought to raise awareness about the power of radio as a tool for education, culture and development. Frontline SMS radio was involved in events. It also has a useful blog discussing the potential uses of SMS by radio stations to interact […]
RSS feed from UN
Get the RSS feed from the U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library http://un-library.tumblr.com/rss It is an excellent current awareness source for highlighting the latest United Nations documents.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
We now have access to the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Over 4,000 articles from leading authors in your field. Have a look at the encyclopedia here: http://ezproxy.lib.le.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080430768 Or you will find the encyclopedia by searching the library catalogue.
UK Education select committee uses Twitter
Interesting development of the use of twitter by the committee. They asked the public to pick a question they would ask the Education Minister Michael Gove. http://twitter.com/#!/search/AskGove For more infromation see: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/education-committee/news/ask-gove-news/
Growth Commission
The London School of Economics has set up a Growth Commission which aims to provide contributions to the formulation and implementation of a long-term growth strategy the UK. It will run for a year from January 23rd 2012. http://cep.lse.ac.uk/LSEGrowthCommission/
DevInfo India
http://devinfo.info/devinfoindia/ Useful graphic display of statistical data from the Indian government which has been developed using figures from various government ministries. It includes useful state profiles http://www.devinfolive.info/devinfoindia/profiles/ It is a useful supplement to the Ministry of Information website http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx which has a full data catalogue plus free access to some reports. Another good source of data […]
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