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 […]
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 […]
The 4th work-life balance employee survey
From the Department for Business Innovation & Skills and carried out in early 2011: http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/employment-matters/docs/f/12-p151-fourth-work-life-balance-employee-survey The report benchmarks key policy changes since the 2006 survey including the Work and Families Act 2006 which offered the extension of the ‘right to request’ flexible working to parents of children under the age of 17 (2009). See more publications […]
How far will technology companies go in helping repressive regimes
http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Corporate_Responsibility_070512.pdf Interesting report on corporate responsibility from pew Internet and American Life and Elon University. Based on over 1,000 response from executives to questions relating to the issue ‘how will technology firms around the world operate when they are confronted by situations in which optimal product sales and profits can be made only when they […]
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 […]
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 […]
2011 National Human Development Report for Russia
http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/national/europethecis/russia/name,24360,en.html Find out more about socio-economic conditions in Russia by reading this major new report. Prepared by the Faculty of Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Focus is upon modernization and human development. Covers changes to the economy, organization of economic life. Also useful is the Nations in Transit report from Freedom House. http://www.freedomhouse.org/report-types/nations-transit which […]
World Development Indicators 2012
Now available from the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/news/world-development-indicators-2012-now-available The World Development Indicators include many time series of data covering global poverty and development trends since 1960.
Social Science Bites
Podcasts of interviews with leading social scientists on different aspects of the social world. Published by Sage. http://www.socialsciencebites.com/
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