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• The most dangerous places for a journalist

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/07/the-most-dangerous-places-for-a-journalist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 7, 2014 According to data from the  Committee to Protect Journalists  in 2013 it was Syria, Iraq and Egypt. See the  Guardian Datablog  visualisation graphic.

• Global slavery index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/global-slavery-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 According to the Walk Free Foundation there are 38.5 million slaves worldwide. including 8,300 in the UK.

• Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/global-entrepreneurship-and-development-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014 The Global Entrepreneurship and  Development Index   Free access to this annual  index of nations ranked according to  how conducive they are to entrepreneurial...

• 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.

• Human Development Report 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/human-development-report-2014/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 Human Development Report 2014 published annually by the  United Nations Development Programme  (UNDP) puts people at the centre of measuring development- looking at the...

• Global Competitiveness Report

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/09/05/global-competitiveness-report/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 5, 2014 World Economic Forum: latest global competitiveness report  released It assesses the competitiveness landscape of 148 economies.

• 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...

• UK slips in gender equality rankings

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/uk-slips-in-gender-equality-rankings/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Released this week by the World Economic Forum.  The latest gender gap report which rates nations according to disparity between the sexes  in health, education and work.

• 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 .