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US Armed Forces: Overseas activity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/us-armed-forces-overseas-activity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013 Useful reference report from Congressional research services, 23 pages long.
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Human Rights reports
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/24/human-rights-reports/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2013 Amnesty international global annual report on human rights released . Read the whole report or look at reports for individual nations.
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Bloomberg: effects of QE in fixed income markets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/07/bloomberg-effects-of-qe-in-fixed-income-markets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 7, 2013 Quantitative easing has increased the level of liquidity in financial markets and helped drive down yields in government bond markets.
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Bloomberg: Twitter’s IPO
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/15/bloomberg-twitters-ipo/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2013 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.
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Education for all 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/education-for-all-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 The latest report for 2015 from UNESCO monitors progress towards achieving worldwide access to 6 goals.
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2017 Atlas of Sustainable development goals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/2017-atlas-of-sustainable-development-goals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 Just released by the World Bank a visual mapping of progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development goals which include: ending poverty, good health, access to education, sustainable cities.
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Asian Development Outlook 2018
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/17/asian-development-outlook-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2018 The Asian Development Bank has just released its latest annual review which has a special focus on the impact of technology upon employment and jobs in the region.
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Twitter transparency
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/twitter-transparency/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 https://transparency.twitter.
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Open UNDP
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/15/open-undp/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 15, 2013 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.
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Leveson inquiry
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/leveson-inquiry/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 LSE Media Policy Project is analysing reaction. Look at their blog for academic discussion: http://blogs.lse.ac.