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Global Competitiveness Report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/09/05/global-competitiveness-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 5, 2014 World Economic Forum: latest global competitiveness report released It assesses the competitiveness landscape of 148 economies.
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Global billionaires and political power
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/03/global-billionaires-and-political-power/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2014 Global billionaires political power list New From the Brookings Institution and based on a forthcoming book by Darrell West, this is a ranking of political power exercised by the top...
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UNICEF report shows children hit hard by financial crisis
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/unicef-report-shows-children-hit-hard-by-financial-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Children of the Recession has used official data to rank the impact on children from EU and OECD countries. For UK data see the CPAG website .
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Arabic collections online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/arabic-collections-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Free digital library which aims to provide full-text access to Arabic language books from the collections of American University of Beirut, Columbia University, Cornell...
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Catalonia Referendum Results
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/21/catalonia-referendum-results/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 The Catalan News Monitor is a useful English language site created by Plataforma pel Dret de Decidir , an umbrella organisation of more than 700 associations campaigning for the...
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Children and Social Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/children-and-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 How much time do British children spend using social media each day? Results from Ofcom which is based on 3-day digital diaries of 186 primary school children and 173 secondary.
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Journalism and Discourse Studies launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/journalism-and-discourse-studies-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 This new open access journal is published by Newcastle University. It aims to offer a forum for the publication of studies covering critical discourse analysis and journalism.
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Are the social sciences significant?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/09/are-the-social-sciences-significant/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 The recent report from the Campaign for Social Science- The Business of people considers the value of social science to policy makers, its present funding and future ways in which it can...
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Bitcoin ‘offers opportunities to charities’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/bitcoin-offers-opportunities-to-charities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 According to the latest report from the Charities Aid Foundation online currencies such as Bitcoin could enable charities to cut currency transfer costs and encourage transparency.
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United States Treaty Series 1776-1949
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/26/united-states-treaty-series-1776-1949/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 26, 2016 Free access to the United States Treaty Series , compiled by Charles I. Bevans, via the Law Library of Congress website.