Data on child poverty
The TransMONEE database: Data on children in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: this database is associated with with the UNICEF MONEE project on the living conditions of children and adolescents in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS). It provides free access to 180 economic and […]
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 […]
Measuring Child Poverty
New league tables of child poverty in the world’s rich countries just released by UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 10 http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/660 It uses data from the European Union’s Statistics on Incomes and Living Conditions survey of 125,000 households in 31 European countries. Other useful websites for obtaining facts, figures and reports about poverty and British children […]
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.
Charitable giving
For research on charitable giving try these resources. Charities Aid foundation publishes UK giving https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2011-publications/uk-giving-2011.aspx Behaviour can also be compared in the World Giving index https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2011-publications/world-giving-index-2011.aspx Think tank New Philanthropy Capital: http://www.philanthropycapital.org/publications/publications_list.aspx provides free access to many of its reports discussing how charities can make themselves more effective. NCVO has commentary on UK charity policy […]
Technology and development
Global Information Technology report 2012: http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-information-technology# Reports on the extent to which 142 economies use ICT and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. See the rankings and essays which discuss the impact on working life. There is also a separate data platform http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-information-technology/gitr-2012-data-platform
Information on development
The African Capacity Building Foundation has a virtual library of documents on poverty reduction in Africa at: http://elibrary.acbfpact.org/ World Bank documents and data can be accessed in the Open Knowledge Repository at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/ CGIAR Virtual information centre http://vlibrary.cgiar.org/V?RN=512253939 Information from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research – a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in […]
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