Exporting corruption: Progress report 2013: assessing enforcement of the OECD Conventionon combating bribery Full text report from Transparency International View other earlier reports from Transparency International The World Bank Governance and Anti-corruption section also has some useful reports on this topic. See in particular worldwide governance indicators 1996-2012 which covers over 200 nations for six […]
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Population growth
Population Council develop new tool for assessing factors driving future population growth in a country. The decomposition service from Devinfo calculates the contributions of different demographic factors (wanted and un-wanted fertility, mortality, migration, and age structure) to population growth. It is based on the medium variant population projection of the United Nations from 2010 to […]
Civil partnership data
Latest civil partnership data released by Office for National Statistics. Includes unions and dissolutions. Also includes some articles on impact from 2005-2010. Northern Ireland data are also available at: http://www.nisra.gov.uk/demography/default.asp13.htm The University of Manchester Morgan Centre conducted some useful research “Just Like Marriage?” Young couples’ civil partnerships which investigated relationships between civil partners. Research focussed on […]
Feminist Times
Feminist Times, billed as the new online successor to Spare Rib by its founders, has been launched. http://www.feministtimes.com/ The Founding editor is Charlotte Raven. The Guardian blog discusses some of the controversies surrounding the publication.
Bloomberg: Twitter’s IPO
Twitter Inc. filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Sept. 12. Use Bloomberg’s functions to analyze IPOs in the communications sector. You will find the case study document under the function FFM on your Bloomberg terminals.
Internet Censorship
Blocked on Weibo Site maintained by Jason Ng Google Policy Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and author of Blocked on Weibo, discusses his work and other censorship issues relating to social media and China. Includes lists of blocked words. For other information try. Herdict a user-driven platform for identifying web blockages as they happen; from the […]
ECPR YouTube channel
European Consortium for Political Research YouTube channel ECPR is an independent, scholarly association, established in 1970. Its YouTube channel is currently providing access to videos of recent discussion and lecture workshops covering political science scholarship. For other useful videos of political events try UK Political Studies Association channel. This also has some conference materials as […]
International Day of Older Persons celebrated October 1st
See the official website which also links to related UN resolutions and reports. On this occasion, HelpAge produced the Global Agewatch index. This ranks countries concern for older people in terms of a number of factors: income, health, employment and education, and enabling environment. Find out where the best places for the elderly to live […]
Human Capital Index
Human capital Index. World Economic Forum launch the 2013 Human capital index. It aims to measure how well 122 countries value and achieve the full economic potential of their workers. by using indices such as Education, Health and Wellness, Workforce and Employment and Enabling Environment. See the press release.
Global Teacher Status Index
Global Teacher Status Index A new study out this week ranks the status of teachers in various countries. It considers from public polls which country respects the profession of teaching the and most which countries think teachers are paid too much.
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