UK and Business with EU
Business for Britain A new lobby group campaigning to press the government to renegotiate the UK’s deal with the EU. See news and the signatories on the website. For Official EU policy (covering funding and policy) see the SME portal UK government advice on business trading in the EU
Global information technology report 2013
Global information technology report Released by World Economic Forum, this report includes Networked Readiness Index Rankings, country data profiles and Case Studies of ICT being used for competitiveness and well-being. Other useful sites for world rankings of ICT are the ITU’s Measuring the Information Society report. This annual report enables benchmarking of development to take place. It […]
Bloomberg: Credit Default Swaps
Since the European Union ban on naked sovereign CDS in November, the volume of sovereign CDS trades has plummeted while the volume on financials CDS has increased, according to DTCC data. Bloomberg functions show that since January the spread of the European financials CDS index has widened as market participants may be using it as […]
Female FTSE report 2013
Acces the latest annual review of the number of women board members at the UK’s leading FTSE companies. From the Cranfield University website. Past issues from 2005 onwards are also available for comparison. http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/ftse
The Economics of Chocolate
The International Cocoa organization provides free access to basic statistics on prices see the monthly market reviews. It also has a section on the chocolate industry For trade try UNCTAD – there is a special report from 2008 for cocoa. You can also trace recent statistics fro cocoa and chocolate on the UNCTAD stats website. The Fairtrade […]
Economy of Cyprus
Find some back ground data on the ongoing crisis. Get Euro area debt data from the ECB: http://www.ecb.int/stats/gov/html/dashboard.en.html The World Bank data site has many useful graphs on Cyprus covering economic, finance and development issues: http://data.worldbank.org/country/cyprus The statistical service of Cyprus also has up to date economic data on its website: http://www.cystat.gov.cy/mof/cystat/statistics.nsf/index_en/index_en?OpenDocument The IMF has […]
Human Trafficking
A new report from the Centre for Social Justice http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/publications – It Happens Here: Equipping the United Kingdom to fight modern slavery – argues that the authorities do not know the scale of human trafficking in the UK. See reports and a strategy for tackling human trafficking on the Home Office website: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime/human-trafficking/ The UK […]
Open UNDP
http://open.undp.org/ New open data website from the United Nations Development Programme. Get official data on over 6,000 development projects in 177 countries worldwide. It includes data on individual projects and about aid flows. You can download data in IATI XML, CSV, and JSON formats.
New interactive guide to humanitarian financing
http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/data-guides/humanitarian-aid-network Based on the Global Humanitarian Assistance reports http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/reports produced every year by the Development Initiatives think tank. It aims to map map out how players interconnect and how the information, financing and other resources flow through both the formal and informal system.
Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK and EU, 2005-20
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/household-income/poverty-and-social-exclusion-in-the-uk-and-eu/2005-2011/rpt–poverty-and-social-exclusion.html New report from the UK Office of National statistics. The percentage of people who say they are unable to meet unexpected financial expenses has increased considerably since the start of the economic downturn, up from 26.6% in 2007 to 36.6% in 2011. The proportion of people unable to afford an annual holiday has also […]
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