Peoples Assembly against Austerity
Peoples Assembly against Austerity launch new website Includes materials from unions, socialists and campaign groups against welfare cuts. A good place for finding out about national and local campaigns. View online videos and download campaign materials.
Education data
New World Bank educational data website: Systems Approach for Better Education Results or SABER …collects data on education systems worldwide using evidence based frameworks. Policy topics covered include child development, student assessment, teachers, school finance and inclusion. As countries choose to participate it does not include every nation. This supplements the wider World Bank Edustats […]
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
ESCAP digital publications Free access to its flagship publication Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific starting with the first edition published in 1948 and continuing until the present day. It contains articles and surveys on regional economics. There are particularly good tables of statistics and the website’s link can also be found […]
Global Risks 2014
Global Risks 2014 Released by World Economic Forum. Analyses 31 global risks. The 2014 edition includes special in-depth investigations into youth unemployment, digital disintegration and geopolitical risks.
Big data
Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge A useful project to follow from the Oxford Internet Institute. Running 2012-14. It is investigating the potential uses and good practices in the use of big statistical data by social scientists. It has a blog which highlights and reports on current events. There are also some […]
UNESCO open-access repository
Now officially launched, the url for the UNESCO open access repository is: http://en.unesco.org/open-access/ Some good examples of key UNESCO titles which you might find relevant are the Education or ALL report series which tracks progress towards education access and literacy worldwide.
Factiva tutorials
Library tutorials on how to use Factiva (http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/f/factiva) available. Finding newspaper articles: https://connect.le.ac.uk/newsfa Finding company data: https://connect.le.ac.uk/cdf/
Youth (un)employment
EU youth prospects This week a major conference of EU leaders discussed youth unemployment in Europe see EU papers, news and report on youth employment in Europe Also on this theme a recent paper in the open access journal Demographic research Youth prospects in a time of economic recession IPPR has also published a report […]
Women’s rights in the Arab world
Women’s rights in the Arab world. Thomson Reuters Foundation has published its third annual poll of gender experts, focusing on women’s rights in Arab League states. It used over 300 experts to review assess the extent to which states adhered to key provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). […]
OECD’s How’s Life?
The OECD has released How’s Life 2013 statistics which measure well being in OECD nations. These includes gender differences, the impact of the financial crisis and in the workplace.
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