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  • Urban transformations

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2016 Get the latest news and research from this ESRC funded network coordinated by the University of Oxford.   Key topics include demography, socio cultural change and governance.

  • ‘Removing womens’ inequality would add $12 trillion to global growth’

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2016 …according to the latest report from Mckinsey.   It estimates that gender inequality has vast economic costs.

  • European Digital City Index 2016

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 25, 2016 Launched by Nesta to measure how well cities support start-ups and digital entrepreneurs.  This year it has expanded and now covers 60 cities.

  • A new Regional Gender Equality Monitor

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 29, 2019 A new index which focuses specifically on female disadvantage and achievement at a regional level within the European Union.

  • Measuring financial inclusion: the Global Findex Database

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 14, 2012 http://econ.worldbank.

  • Occupy Wall Street

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet The social movement now has a space on the Internet where they are permanently archiving protest materials.

  • The World Bank Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2012 http://sedlac.econo.unlp.edu.ar/eng/statistics.php Maintained by CEDLAS (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) http://cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.

  • KOFI Annan Syria peace plan

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2012/sc10583.doc.htm See the UN special envoy for Syria web page for details of the role of Kofi Annan http://www.un.

  • How far will technology companies go in helping repressive regimes

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 20, 2012 http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Corporate_Responsibility_070512.

  • Equal pay day

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2012 A report from the Fawcett society claims a backward step for women in closing the gender pay gap in the UK. See other campaign material on their website for more reports and statistics.

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