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Atlas of Economic Complexity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/21/atlas-of-economic-complexity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 21, 2014 Atlas of Economic Complexity Free online book published by The Observatory of Economic Complexity which aims to make available to the public complex data about international trade...
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LGBT in the military
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/28/lgbt-in-the-military/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2014 LGBT Military Index The first ever global ranking of countries by inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) service members in the armed forces has just been...
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Security: Latin America and Caribbean
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/11/security-latin-america-and-caribbean/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2014 iGarapé Citizen Security Database This database maps security in 18 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean for the period 1999-2013.
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Campaign for Media Pluralism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/campaign-for-media-pluralism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 UK Coalition for Media Pluralism launches online campaign video Here is a petition calling for greater media diversity, increased competition.
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Global Peace Index 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/global-peace-index-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Global Peace Index 2014 released This is compiled by The Institute for Peace and Economics and ranks 162 nations according to levels of peacefulness.
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Income and Equality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/21/income-and-equality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2014 The Work Foundation Launch Low Pay Project The site offers online recent papers and low pay data. Also on this topic, The Office for National Statistics has long-term wage data.
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Media freedom in Europe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/03/media-freedom-in-europe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2014 Map of Media Freedom in Europe Index on Censorship and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso are joining forces to map the state of media freedom in Europe.
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World Survey on the Role of Women in Development
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/world-survey-on-the-role-of-women-in-development/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 This report is published every 5 years by UN Secretary-General. The 2014 issue focuses on themes relating to gender and sustainable development.
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World ranking of prosperity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/world-ranking-of-prosperity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index is an annual ranking of 142 countries.
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Where is the best place to be a working woman?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-working-woman/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 To mark International Women’s day the Economist created a ‘glass-ceiling index’ which uses OECD data to rank factors including gender pay gaps and labour force participation.