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
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 […]
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.
Joseph Stiglitz and Central Banks
Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, stated that central banks have too much financial power to remain as unelected bodies. Read the full speech to the Indian reserve bank on his website: A Revolution in Monetary Policy: Lessons in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis, C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, January […]
Large corporations and tax
Large corporations and tax. Here are some a starting points for research. HM Revenue website has the official regulations and forms. It also provides free access to regular statistical reports on corporation tax. There is also a section about the need to reform tax laws. Useful documents and guides on home and overseas tax regulations can […]
Data.gov.in
A new initiative to provide free open access to statistical data from the Indian government. It currently has only 19 datasets, but these include recent GDP and consumer price indexes, and more will be added as data controllers are appointed. Materials will include state level and urban/rural data. Datasets are available to download in Excel. More […]
The Right to be Heard Framework: A learning companion
An online guide from Oxfam intended for development workers. The right to be heard framework aims to help poor people be heard by politicians. It includes case studies from civil society on how to devise and analyse programmes and gain support. http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/the-right-to-be-heard-framework-a-learning-companion-254793
ICAI – Independent commission for aid impact
The independent body responsible for the scrutiny of UK aid. A useful starting point for considering effectiveness. Reports from 2011 onwards are online. http://icai.independent.gov.uk/publications/ Other useful analyses of UK aid: House of Commons international development committee – reports and hearings online. Eldis provides a free searchable database of abstracts and full text publications covering all aspects […]
Jeanette Winterson, tax, libraries and Starbucks, Google and Amazon!
The author Jeanette Winterson delivered the inaugural Reading Agency lecture at the British Library on 19th November. In it she argued that the government should charge Starbucks tax to save libraries. Read more about it on the Reading Agency website http://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/jeanette-winterson-delivers-the-inaugural-the-reading-agency-lecture.html and in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/19/amazon-starbucks-google-libraries-jeanette-winterson
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