What are the most popular online purchases?
Recent date from the ONS allows you to discover what types of products are purchased by different age-groups.
Arabic collections online
Free digital library which aims to provide full-text access to Arabic language books from the collections of American University of Beirut, Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University and Princeton University. Topics will include history, business and science. On campus this works better in Firefox. The URL is http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/
World ranking of prosperity
Legatum Prosperity Index is an annual ranking of 142 countries. It uses eight categories: economy, entrepreneurship & opportunity, governance, education, health, safety & security, personal freedom and social capital. The website has information on the methodology and data for the last 6 years.
The characteristics of successful entrepreneurs?
A recent report by the Centre for Policy Studies revealed the backgrounds of over of 1,000 high earning individuals.
How interconnected is the world?
DHL has just released its latest annual Global Interconnectedness Index which measures the extent of globalization in relation to flows of trade, capital and people. Also see: KOF Index of Globalization Ernst and Young Globalization index Economist ICT Globalisation Index OECD Measurements of economic globalisation.
Women work for nothing
According to the latest briefing from the Fawcett Society, the UK Gender gap is growing. It constitutes the equivalent of women working for free for over 2 months per year. However this week Cranfield University reported in its annual Women on Boards report an increase in the number of new appointments to FTSE 100 directors boards.
UK slips in gender equality rankings
Released this week by the World Economic Forum. The latest gender gap report which rates nations according to disparity between the sexes in health, education and work. In 2013 the UK was ranked 18, it is now ranked 26.
Stonewall Good University Guide
Stonewall have recently created a good universities guide. This rates what specific UK colleges are doing to support LGBT students. Leicester is on the list http://www.gaybydegree.org.uk/university/leicester/
UK Child Poverty
Where is child poverty the highest? Find out using the latest child poverty map of the UK from End Child Poverty Campaign Get more more facts from the Child Poverty Action Group
Bitcoin
What is bitcoin? Find out using this handy Harvard Business school working paper . Bitcoin.org -unofficial website managed by Bitcoin core developers Coinmetrics allows you to view detailed statistics Quandl also has free data Repec has economic papers
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