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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...

• 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.

• UNICEF report shows children hit hard by financial crisis

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/unicef-report-shows-children-hit-hard-by-financial-crisis/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Children of the Recession  has used official data to rank the impact on children from EU and OECD countries. For UK data see the CPAG website .

• Netflix research

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/25/netflix-research/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2018 Netflix have just launched their own official site where they will be posting white papers and articles on what they are researching. See the Netflix official blog for further details.

• Atlas of Sustainable development Goals 2018

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/01/atlas-of-sustainable-development-goals-2018/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2018 This new visual atlas has just been released by the World Bank It has charts and articles based on the 17 SDGs taken from the World Development Indicators.

• Foreign Aid Explorer (US)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/11/foreign-aid-explorer-us/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 11, 2019 USAID has developed a new tool which aims to increase aid transparency in relation to US historical foreign aid.

• Real-time crime index, USA

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/real-time-crime-index-usa/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 An initiative to provide real-time updated data and mappings of crime in the USA.  It has been built by AH Datalytics and supported by Arnold Ventures .

• Trade Policy Hub

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/14/trade-policy-hub/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2025 The Trade Policy Hub offers free access to papers and research on core trade and investment policy issues, including public procurement, intellectual property rights, trade and...

• Historical Newspaper Archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/14/historical-newspaper-archives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2015 The University has recently acquired some historical newspaper archives amongst which are the Daily Mail 1896-2004, the Independent 1986-2012 and Punch 1841-1992.

• How to end the ‘UK’s role as a safe haven for corrupt individuals, their allies and assets’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/how-to-end-the-uks-role-as-a-safe-haven-for-corrupt-individuals-their-allies-and-assets/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 A new publication from Transparency International which explores the rol e of the UK’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies and complicity in the Panama Papers affair.