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Measuring rural poverty
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/measuring-rural-poverty/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014 Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has just released this new tool which can be used to measure rural...
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Poverty and Social Exclusion
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/poverty-and-social-exclusion/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Latest Report from Poverty and Social Exclusion Project The shocking findings on rising levels of poverty in the UK were presented at a conference in London this week.
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Global billionaires and political power
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/03/global-billionaires-and-political-power/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2014 Global billionaires political power list New From the Brookings Institution and based on a forthcoming book by Darrell West, this is a ranking of political power exercised by the top...
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International Women’s Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/08/international-womens-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2018 International Women’s Day is celebrated on the 8 th March to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. This year the theme is Press for Progress.
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Bloomberg: US GDP reporting
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/bloomberg-us-gdp-reporting/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis made substantial changes to how it defines and measures key components of U.S. gross domestic product.
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FRASER
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/fraser/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has added some archival documents dating back to the 1930s.
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OHCHR anti-discrimination database launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/27/ohchr-anti-discrimination-database-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 27, 2013 OHCHR anti-discrimination database launched .
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Bloomberg: US Government shutdown
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/02/bloomberg-us-government-shutdown/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 2, 2013 A U.S. government shutdown affects everyone to some degree. Companies with big federal contracts have a special reason to worry.
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ECPR YouTube channel
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/ecpr-youtube-channel/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 European Consortium for Political Research YouTube channel ECPR is an independent, scholarly association, established in 1970.
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Cornell University Political Americana Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/cornell-university-political-americana-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Cornell University Political Americana Collection Hundreds of images of political commemorative items from the USA from 1789 to 1980.