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                    Bloomberg: offshore yuan valueshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/bloomberg-offshore-yuan-values/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The offshore yuan weakened on May 6 by the most since 2011 after Chinese regulators announced a probe of export data and new restrictions on loans. 
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                    Bloomberg: Quantitative Easinghttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/31/bloomberg-quantitative-easing/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2013 U.K. CPI dropped to a seven-month low last month, driven by lower energy prices. April’s 2.4 percent was less than economists’ median forecast of 2.6 percent. 
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                    Longer liveshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org. 
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                    PingER – how bad is the Internet in Africa?https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/08/pinger-how-bad-is-the-internet-in-africa/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2013 The PingER (Ping End-to-end Reporting) Internet End-to-end Performance Measurement (IEPM) project monitors performance of Internet links from over 700 sites in 160 nations. 
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                    AFP e-diplomacy hubhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/19/afp-e-diplomacy-hub/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 19, 2013 Find out about twitter and foreign policy. 
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                    Mobile trendshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/30/mobile-trends/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 30, 2013 comScore has released its latest Mobile Future in Focus report for the US http://www.comscore. 
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                    Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan electionshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This used crowd sourced technology. 
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                    Women in developing countries 9% less likely to have a bank accounthttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/women-in-developing-countries-9-less-likely-to-have-a-bank-account/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make... 
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                    Social surveyshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/08/social-surveys/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 8, 2013 UK Data service variable and question bank. Contains a catalogue of questions asked by major British social surveys since the 1990s. Use to trace relevant surveys by topic. 
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                    Money, Politics and Financehttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/money-politics-and-finance/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 N ew site with data on politics money and campaign finance worldwide. It is a collaboration between the Sunlight Foundation, Global Integrity and the Electoral Integrity Project.