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ICAI – Independent commission for aid impact
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/13/icai-independent-commission-for-aid-impact/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2012 The independent body responsible for the scrutiny of UK aid. A useful starting point for considering effectiveness. Reports from 2011 onwards are online. http://icai.independent.gov.
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Happiness research
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/01/happiness-research/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 1, 2011 This week the Office for National Statistics released the results of a public consultation on indicators which the British public feel should be used to measure happiness National...
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Sandy: Crisis response
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/05/sandy-crisis-response/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 5, 2012 Crisis Response maps from Google: http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy marks disaster areas. Also highlights local emergency twitter feeds.
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Do you earn enough money to live in London?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/do-you-earn-enough-money-to-live-in-london/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 Try out this calculator from the Trust for London which calculates levels of basic income for different types of households.
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Entrepreneurship at a Glance
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/16/entrepreneurship-at-a-glance/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2017 The latest edition of this key report from the OECD is now available free to read online subscribers to the OECD library can download the full text.
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Cross-national income database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/09/cross-national-income-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2012 Luxembourg Income Database (LIS) http://www.lisdatacenter.
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Measuring Peace in the Media 2011
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/27/measuring-peace-in-the-media-2011/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 The Institute for Economics & Peace produces a number of indexes which measure levels of peace and conflict worldwide.
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Ready to research
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/03/ready-to-research/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2012 http://www.readytoresearch.ac.
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Charitable giving
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/20/charitable-giving/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2012 For research on charitable giving try these resources. Charities Aid foundation publishes UK giving https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2011-publications/uk-giving-2011.
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Peace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/02/peace/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2012 The Peace Accords Matrix from the Kroc Institute of International peace studies. http://peaceaccords.nd.