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Students, debt and standard of living
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/students-debt-and-standard-of-living/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 The Sutton Trust estimated in 2014 that students graduate with £44,000 debt and this week the Centre for Policy Studies reported that generation Y (born 1980-2000) will have a lower...
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Online Labour Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/30/online-labour-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2016 A u seful tool which provides free data on jobs advertised online via websites and platforms in different countries and different occupations, quickly enabling researchers to track...
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Bloomberg: Prudential’s dividends
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/bloomberg-prudentials-dividends/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Prudential PLC, the U.K.’s second biggest insurer by market share, reported rising Asia sales and an 18 percent increase in first-half Asia operating earnings.
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Bloomberg: a merger
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/28/bloomberg-a-merger/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2013 The recently merged mining and commodity trading company Glencore Xstrata reported a $7.7billion write-down of assets previously owned by Xstrata.
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Human Capital Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/human-capital-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Human capital Index. World Economic Forum launch the 2013 Human capital index. It aims to measure how well 122 countries value and achieve the full economic potential of their workers.
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Bloomberg: Economic surprises
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/28/bloomberg-economic-surprises/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 28, 2013 The September U.S. non-farm payrolls report released on Oct. 22 surprised economists with only 148,000 jobs created, versus the consensus forecast of 180,000.
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Women’s rights in the Arab world
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/womens-rights-in-the-arab-world/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Women’s rights in the Arab world. Thomson Reuters Foundation has published its third annual poll of gender experts, focusing on women’s rights in Arab League states.
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Glocalism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/31/glocalism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2014 Glocalism …a new peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary journal, published every four months by the association Globus et Locus.
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Media Pluralism Monitor 2015 launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/22/media-pluralism-monitor-2015-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2016 The Media Pluralism Monitor is conducted by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom.
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US Elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/30/us-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2016 The Electome Project from MIT Media Map is using Twitter data to look at reactions to the 2016 election race. It has articles and Twitter analysis of the first presidential debate.