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• Bloomberg: Tracking Emerging-Market Holdings of U.S. Debt

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/24/bloomberg-tracking-emerging-market-holdings-of-u-s-debt/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2013 Portfolio outflows from emerging markets sparked a sell-off in currencies from India’s rupee to Brazil’s real.

• Human Capital Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/human-capital-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Human capital Index. World Economic Forum launch the 2013 Human capital index. It aims to measure how well 122 countries value and achieve the full economic potential of their workers.

• Internet Censorship

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/internet-censorship/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Blocked on Weibo Site maintained by Jason Ng Google Policy Fellow at the University of Toronto’s  Citizen Lab  and author of  Blocked on Weibo , discusses his work...

• US Presidential Papers online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/us-presidential-papers-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Now available from the GPO online from 1991 – They include statements, speeches and remarks. Other great presidential resources.

• Africa Open Data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/africa-open-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Africa open data Useful initiative of the Open Africa Platform which is part of the Ujuzi Initiative and created and funded by the Africa Media Initiative (AMI), the World Bank...

• Civil partnership data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/civil-partnership-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Latest civil partnership data released by Office for National Statistics. Includes unions and dissolutions. Also includes some articles on impact from 2005-2010.

• Corruption

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/corruption/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Exporting corruption: Progress report 2013: assessing enforcement of the OECD Conventionon combating bribery Full text report from Transparency International V iew other earlier...

• Street protests and their repression

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/street-protests-and-their-repression/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations released a report: Take back the streets about the repression of street protests worldwide. Countries covered include: U.S., U.K.

• Bloomberg: Economic surprises

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/28/bloomberg-economic-surprises/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 28, 2013 The September U.S. non-farm payrolls report released on Oct. 22 surprised economists with only 148,000 jobs created, versus the consensus forecast of 180,000.

• Bloomberg: Sino-British trade

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/01/bloomberg-sino-british-trade/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2013 U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced a series of agreements on trade and investment during a recent visit to China.