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Social Institutions and Gender Index 2019 launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/social-institutions-and-gender-index-2019-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 Pioneered by the OECD in 2009, this index has been updated for 2019 It covers 180 nations providing profiles and cross-country rankings classifying countries according to their level...
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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2018
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/04/global-multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2019 Just released from the United Nations development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), the latest edition of this index with an online data...
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Middle East Women’s Activism collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/25/middle-east-womens-activism-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2020 A digital collection from SOAS.
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A healthy US election
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/12/a-healthy-us-election/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2020 Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election A joint project to bring together resources about the conduct of the US 2020 presidential elections includes report cards and data on...
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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...
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Government at a glance
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/1434/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Government at a glance. The OECD publishes a report measuring government performance across the 34 member countries of the OECD. They include service provision and delivery.
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Surveillance Industry Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/29/surveillance-industry-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 29, 2013 Privacy International Launches Surveillance Industry Index/Database This database includes information provided by WikiLeaks and Omega Research Foundation.
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Global Consumption Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/global-consumption-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Global Consumption Database Just launched by The World Bank and International Finance Corp (IFC). Useful for finding data on how people in developing countries spend their income.
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For International Women’s day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/for-international-womens-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 The Fawcett Society launched the report- Parents, work and care: Striking the Balance’ which shows disparity in perceptions of working mothers – the CEO stated.
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Aleppo – New spatial maps of the Conflict
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/aleppo-new-spatial-maps-of-the-conflict/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 Conflict Urbanism: Aleppo from the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia University, a project to build online maps of the conflict damage in the historic region of Aleppo.