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• International Women’s Day: 8th March

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/08/international-womens-day-8th-march/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2013 This year’s UN International Women’s Day focuses on ending violence against women. The song One Woman is released today to help laucnh the campaign. Hear it here: http://song.unwomen.

• Bloomberg: Macroeconomic data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/22/bloomberg-macroeconomic-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2013 The U.K. economy grew 0.3 percent in the first quarter, avoiding a triple dip recession. Bloomberg functions show much of the recovery comes from the services industry.

• Population growth

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/population-growth/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Population Council develop new tool for assessing factors driving future population growth in a country.

• Voluntary Sector UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/21/voluntary-sector-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 21, 2014 Panel on the Independence of the Voluntary Sector annual report Established by the Baring Foundation to provide assessments of the  independence of voluntary civil society...

• Atlas of Economic Complexity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/21/atlas-of-economic-complexity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 21, 2014 Atlas of Economic Complexity Free online book published by The Observatory of Economic Complexity which aims to make available to the public complex data about international trade...

• Global Peace Index 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/global-peace-index-2014/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Global Peace Index 2014 released This is compiled by The Institute for Peace and Economics and  ranks 162 nations according to levels of peacefulness.

• Who runs Britain?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/09/01/who-runs-britain/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2014 Who runs Britain 2014 T he second annual report from Counting Women which examines women’s participation in public life in the UK.

• World Survey on the Role of Women in Development

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/world-survey-on-the-role-of-women-in-development/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 This report is published every 5 years by UN Secretary-General. The 2014 issue focuses on themes relating to gender and sustainable development.

• World ranking of prosperity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/world-ranking-of-prosperity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index  is an annual ranking of 142 countries.

• Where is the best place to be a working woman?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-working-woman/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 To mark International Women’s day the Economist created a ‘glass-ceiling index’ which uses OECD data to rank factors including gender pay gaps and labour force participation.