On the first day of its launch the new Facebook page received 11,00 likes but it is was also widely criticised. The Federal Reserve is the central bank for the United States and was established in 1913. Find out more on its website where you can download a book on its purpose and functions. One […]
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Which economy is most innovative
Get some facts from the 2016 Global Innovation Index compiled by World intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Cornell University, INSEAD. It ranks over 130 nations on 82 indicators. According to the list Switzerland is currently the best innovator. Topics covered include: creativity, regulation, infrastructure and business environment. All volumes from 2011 onwards can be downloaded from […]
International Religious Freedom Report 2015
Published annually by the US State Department it measures commitment to allow individuals to practice individual religious beliefs in countries worldwide. Long term trends can be traced via their website which has the full text of all reports from 2001 onwards. Each country section has a religious demography profile, information on legal protection of religious […]
Social Media and the Olympics
A great example of the use of Instagram to highlight street art in Rio. See the English explanation from the Rio Times or try the Portuguese Instawalk rio See the most talked about things with data from the Facebook and Instagram blog. Twitter data has lots of interesting infographics with initial data on talked about […]
Will you be worse off than your parents?
Get some recent data from the latest inter-generational fairness Index published by the Inter-generational Foundation. For the past 5 years it has been examining the economic, social mobility and health prospects for young British people in comparison with older generations. Shockingly it finds that rising rents, unaffordable housing and more precarious employment could lead to […]
Inspired by the Olympic Games
Get some facts and figures. Which country has won the most medals per capita since 1908? (Guardian datablog) Olympic Studies centre has some photos of amazing summer games mascots from 1972-2016. It also includes reference lists of publications relating to them! Take a virtual look inside the stadiums with Google Maps. Their blog also describes […]
Surveillance Industry Index
Just launched by Privacy International and Transparency Toolkit this new tool aims to track the development of the global surveillance industry. It includes data and reports on leading companies worldwide, technologies and sales of surveillance products. Also published is a full text report tracing its history, spread and scope. This includes case studies on a […]
Other useful Cold War websites
Other useful Cold War websites with primary source documents include: Cold war origin documents from the Wilson Center Digital Archive. The site also has other relevant collections, including the End of the Cold War. All have full text materials for downloading. Also associated with it is the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) whose website […]
British-Soviet Relations in the Cold War 1943-53: New declassified documents online
The documentary evidence project, which has involved academic input from LSE Ideas and Russian Academy of Sciences, among others, has been examining materials from the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Federation (AVPRF), the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Presidential Archive (APRF), UK National Archives (PREM, FO and CAB files), […]
Are economists in touch with ordinary voters?
Find out by reading the results of this interesting recent survey from the Centre for Macroeconomics. It also covers Brexit- why did votes ignore the advice of economists. What were their reasons? The website has details on the response of the economic experts to the survey as well as information on methodology.
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