Inclusive Growth Monitor
New from the Joseph Rowntree Trust a tool for examining and measuring the relationship between poverty and growth. It contains data on all 39 Local Enterprise Partnerships for 18 indicators showing if economic growth leads to a decrease in poverty and social disadvantage. Interestingly one finding is that in many cases increased prosperity does not necessarily lead […]
The Anti-Corruption Summit
The Anti-Corruption Summit has taken place in London. The UK government website contains the proposals for international reform. It includes a collection of essays discussing corruption. plus the new UK government plans to oppose corruption and to govern access to data. For comment see: the Transparency International website. the Anti-corruption manifesto issued by NGOs and Transparency […]
Offshore leaks database
A new enhanced website launched this week by the International Committee of Investigative Journalists which contains all the resources from the Panama Papers tax-avoidance scandal as well as a range of original documents exposing the use and ‘abuse’ of other offshore tax avoidance havens. It now covers over 40 years (1977-2015) and 200 countries. You […]
Bank of Mum and Dad fund 25% of Mortgages
According to the latest research report from Legal and General and Centre for Economics and Business research (CEBR) in 2016 the high cost of housing means that 25% of all mortgage transactions involve parents with an average of over £17,00 being given. This follows on from previous CEBR research which showed an increasing dependence on […]
Who’s downloading pirated papers?
Fascinating article from Science magazine which concludes that students and researchers from around the world are. It focuses upon downloads from SCI-HUB. It uses log data from the creator of the website and includes charts on most downloaded papers and publishers.
Inclusive Growth Commission
RSA Launch Inclusive Growth Commission. Read the prospectus of this new Commission which will be examining ‘practical ways to make local economies across the UK more economically inclusive and prosperous, devising new models of place-based growth.’ It will report in March 2017. Key themes include how to build inclusive labour markets (preventing gender and race barriers, […]
UK Data Service Training
The UK Data Service is providing the following webinars in May and June: Key issues in reusing data, 4 May 2016, 15.00 – 16.00 The UK Census Longitudinal datasets, 6 May 2016, 14.00 – 15.00 Data management basics, 12 May 2016, 15.00 – 16.00 Webinar: What are APIs?, 26 May 2016, 15.00 – 16.00 Webinar: What is MongoDB?, […]
World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016
Just released by the World Bank this major dataset which has over 800 indicators covering more than 150 economies. It has extensive data tables and a sustainable development goals dashboard . New this year – the world bank is phasing out the usage of the terms ‘developing countries’ and ‘developed world’ and moving towards more […]
Government launches new EU Referendum website
See the new site which has provoked such a controversy. It includes the leaflet recommending remaining in the EU.
African Integrity Indicators Launched
The 2016 indicators have recently been released by Global Integrity. They cover rule of law, accountability, elections, public management, civil service integrity, access to information and openness. It is possible to se country files and view the methodology. Other useful indicators on this topic include: The Ibrahim Index of African Governance which is up to […]
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