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Bloomberg: effects of QE in fixed income markets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/07/bloomberg-effects-of-qe-in-fixed-income-markets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 7, 2013 Quantitative easing has increased the level of liquidity in financial markets and helped drive down yields in government bond markets.
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Opendata for Africa
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/opendata-for-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 Great free open data portal just launched by the African Development Bank. Covers over 50 nations providing recent data.
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Bloomberg: Turkey’s inflation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/bloomberg-turkeys-inflation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Turkey has been one of the emerging markets affected by speculation regarding the Fed’s tapering of U.S. quantitative easing.
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Vlearn
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/18/vlearn/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2013 Vlearn A free access site for business and management students.
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Health Databases from WHO
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/27/health-databases-from-who/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 27, 2013 WHO Europe new statistical database- HlthRes-DB Contains nearly 200 indicators on human and technical resources for health covering 53 states from WHO Europe.
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OECD’s How’s Life?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/08/oecds-hows-life/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 8, 2013 The OECD has released How’s Life 2013 statistics which measure well being in OECD nations.
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Better Life Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/better-life-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 2014 Better Life Index released by OECD This annual survey of OECD countries seek to answer the question “What do people want from life?” It has been in operation since 2011.
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Citizen Evidence Lab
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/21/citizen-evidence-lab/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2014 The Citizen Evidence Lab is a new site from Amnesty International which has been created to help journalists and human rights workers authenticate user citizen journalist video materials.
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Economic impact of Ebola
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/20/economic-impact-ebola/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2014 The economic impact of the 2014 Ebola epidemic with short and medium term estimates for West Africa from the World Bank.
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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.