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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.
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Lobbying in the EU
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/lobbying-in-the-eu/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 Released this week by Transparency International a report on the state of regulation of political lobbying in 19 European nations and by the EU.
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Compare the NHS with other health services
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/compare-the-nhs-with-other-health-services/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 Economist Intelligence Unit has just published a report which compares the NHS with healthcare services in 30 other OECD nations.
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EU budget
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/eu-budget/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 Open data about the EU budget can be found on the European Commission’s Budget web pages .
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Eurostat
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/eurostat/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 The statistical office of the European Union provides high quality statistics on the European economy, demographics, industry, trade, environment and technology.
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ORBIS
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/orbis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 The European Political Strategy Centre has launched ORBIS – the Open Repository Base on International Strategic Studies.
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How much does poverty cost the UK?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/how-much-does-poverty-cost-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 Interesting report this week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which examines the cost to UK public services budgets of citizens suffering poverty.
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IMF gender equality data tool
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/imf-gender-equality-data-tool/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 IMF has conducted the first-ever global review of policymakers’ use of tax and spending policies to promote gender equality and has released an online database toolkit of gender...
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UK European Union Referendum web archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/uk-european-union-referendum-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 A web archive created by UCLA and hosted by Archive.
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TCData360 launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/13/tcdata360-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2017 A new site from the World Bank which provides free access to open data on trade and competitiveness.