tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114045524695730252024-03-13T21:26:00.606+00:00SOAS Politics and Economics Library NewsThe latest SOAS library news on the politics and economics collections, details of new resources, links to useful websites, tips for research and moreJoanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-76047977376262699672012-01-27T16:50:00.002+00:002012-01-27T16:50:00.759+00:00Goodbye and Good Luck<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today is my last day at SOAS Library. The library is currently recruiting a replacement subject librarian, but in the meantime if you have any queries please contact:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Politics & International Relations - Mary Seeley - ms28@soas.ac.uk</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Economics - Farzana Whitfield - fq@soas.ac.uk</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You may also be able to find the information you need on the<a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/subjects/"> library webpages</a>. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All the best for the future!</span>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-28307392846245592262012-01-27T10:04:00.001+00:002012-01-27T10:05:27.332+00:00World Economic Forum 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-urzO4wNSKg4/TyJ1oq4VJzI/AAAAAAAAAFs/z_0N6JnK8EM/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-urzO4wNSKg4/TyJ1oq4VJzI/AAAAAAAAAFs/z_0N6JnK8EM/s1600/download.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<a href="http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2012">The official website</a> of the meeting at Davos provides the latest reports and news, as well as free access to the most recent reports produced by the organisation. website also provides free access to the most recent reports produced by the organization. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> <a href="http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-competitiveness" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Global Competitiveness report</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-gender-gap" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Global Gender gap report</a></span></li>
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Its <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldEconomicForum/featured">YouTube channel </a>has interviews with world economic leaders, session videos and short documentary films. You can also view some past interviews and presentations on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://fora.tv/partner/World_Economic_Forum">Fora TV</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">For quick commentary on the events see the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/davos/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Bloomberg news section</a>.<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/davos/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-80771242248758385802012-01-11T14:38:00.001+00:002012-01-11T14:38:00.567+00:00South Asia Research Documentation Services (SARDS)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nrNVmiy9zrE/TwcHlI_9EMI/AAAAAAAAAFk/3g5oXelp8VU/s1600/sards.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nrNVmiy9zrE/TwcHlI_9EMI/AAAAAAAAAFk/3g5oXelp8VU/s1600/sards.png" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sards.uni-halle.de/">SARDS</a> is<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> an electronic database containing bibliographic references to South Asia research articles maintained by the Universities of Bonn, Halle and Munich. It covers the period 1797-2000 and is particularly useful for tracing European language articles. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">It is a good supplement to the <a href="http://bmc.lib.umich.edu/bas/">Bibliography of Asian Studies</a> that SOAS Library subscribes to - note that you will need a SOAS user name and password to access this resource off campus. </span></div>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-87803106706384281682012-01-09T16:31:00.000+00:002012-01-09T16:31:01.352+00:00Useful sources on the Arab Spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1ovv_88UJlc/TwcHFjLm2II/AAAAAAAAAFc/JqY38G7oylI/s1600/750px-arab_spring_map1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="103" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1ovv_88UJlc/TwcHFjLm2II/AAAAAAAAAFc/JqY38G7oylI/s200/750px-arab_spring_map1.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Elections in the News blog from the LSE recently posted a </span><a href="http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.com/2012/01/arab-spring-useful-sources-for-tracing.html" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">list of useful sources</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> for tracing electoral reform in the Middle East. The list includes news services along with analysis and reports from various international think tanks. </span>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-28147018282751828472012-01-06T14:30:00.000+00:002012-01-06T14:30:52.837+00:00Egypt Elections<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qGo9XNSX-Zw/TwcDaZhv1CI/AAAAAAAAAFU/eoGI3ozBasE/s1600/logo_jadaliyya3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="61" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qGo9XNSX-Zw/TwcDaZhv1CI/AAAAAAAAAFU/eoGI3ozBasE/s320/logo_jadaliyya3.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/Egypt%20Elections%20Watch">Egypt Elections Watch </a>has just been launched by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Jadaliyya </span>in association with Ahram Online, the Center of Contemporary Arab Studies (Georgetown University) and the Middle East Studies Program (George Mason University). This site has excellent introductions to election laws, profiles of parties and key figures along with maps, legislation and links to key news feeds and facebook sites(many in Arabic). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Another useful website is <span class="Apple-converted-space"><a href="http://www.egyptvotes.org/en/politics.html">Egypt Votes</a> </span>which aims to encourage quality reporting by young Egyptian journalists. It is jointly financed by the Department of Foreign Affairs, International Trade Canada and the German Federal Foreign Office. Again, some of the site is in Arabic. For further suggestions for news covering the Egyptian elections see the <a href="http://electionsinthenews.blogspot.com/2012/01/egyptian-elections-2012.html">Elections in the News</a> blog from the LSE. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Another useful site relating to India is </span><a href="http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">Vidyanidhi</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, an e-scholarship portal and digital library which is aiming to develop a Online Archive/repository of doctoral theses and dissertations submitted to Indian Universities.</span>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-67681238573009269822011-12-16T15:39:00.001+00:002011-12-16T15:40:24.426+00:00Palgrave Econolog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OAFjQEUlGfY/Tutl8_1VGrI/AAAAAAAAAFE/IbnsA--OJkI/s1600/Palgrave.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OAFjQEUlGfY/Tutl8_1VGrI/AAAAAAAAAFE/IbnsA--OJkI/s1600/Palgrave.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #3a3939; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The <a href="http://econolog.net/">Palgrave Econolog</a> is an economics blog aggregator. It surveys the content of more than 350 economics blogs, indexes them by topic and tracks traffic so that you can see at a glance what economists are reading and writing about, highlighting hot stories, papers, books and conferences. Users can filter the aggregated posts by type, review the list of blogs that are being aggregated, see a ranking of economics blogs based on links between economics blogs over the last 90 days and see the Zeitgeist view of hot topics being discussed by economics bloggers. A variety of RSS feeds are available for the different parts of the site.</span></span></div>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-51274774678632630392011-11-28T09:10:00.001+00:002011-11-28T09:10:01.010+00:00UN Database on Arbitrary Detention<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vVmWA0StIF4/Ts-0i-XbRXI/AAAAAAAAAE4/GRF58lcchX4/s1600/979960_prison.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vVmWA0StIF4/Ts-0i-XbRXI/AAAAAAAAAE4/GRF58lcchX4/s200/979960_prison.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The official mandate for this is Resolution 1991/42 of the former Commission on Human Rights (approved by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in decision 1991/243 of 31 May 1991). This decision </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">established a working group of five independent experts, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">initially for three years. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The experts are mandated to investigate cases of deprivation of liberty imposed arbitrarily or otherwise inconsistently with the international standards set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or the relevant international legal instruments accepted by the States concerned. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Documents include case notes, human rights instruments. Topics include detention of immigrants. Detention at Guantanamo Bay. </span></div>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-60097843056725690402011-11-25T15:27:00.000+00:002011-11-25T15:27:37.469+00:00Bahrain Human Rights Reforms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gIu2cIzelvU/Ts-zfF49IgI/AAAAAAAAAEw/E1H6eo6V8-U/s1600/Bahrain_map.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gIu2cIzelvU/Ts-zfF49IgI/AAAAAAAAAEw/E1H6eo6V8-U/s200/Bahrain_map.gif" width="200" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">This week a commission reported into future human rights reforms in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15861255" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">BBC report</a> has a direct link to an English language version of the full text.<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><br />
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A BioMed Central and Computer Aid International event, was hosted at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, during Open Access Week 2011.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.918); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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</ul>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-16856494933639257832011-11-16T09:10:00.000+00:002011-11-16T09:10:00.126+00:00The Egypt Electionnaire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ncndSZEDDm4/Tr0Sw_t34UI/AAAAAAAAAEc/2RjOMUlES7k/s1600/logo_en.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ncndSZEDDm4/Tr0Sw_t34UI/AAAAAAAAAEc/2RjOMUlES7k/s200/logo_en.png" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://egypt.electionnaire.com/" target="_blank">The Egypt Electionnaire</a> </strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">is a project by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and MICT (Media in Cooperation and Transition). It aims to encourage discussions about democracy by the Egyptian electorate in advance of the 2011 parliamentary elections. Users to the site answer 29 questions to match their views with the policy/ programmes of the main parties.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Another useful voter information site is </span><a href="http://www.egyptvotes.org/" style="font-size: 15px;" target="_blank">Egypt votes</a>. </span></div>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-87543123235921770072011-11-14T09:10:00.001+00:002011-11-14T09:10:00.323+00:00Countries at the Crossroads 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U6ZE0Q7Vy-A/Tr0RXjv0bEI/AAAAAAAAAEU/SEGmu3bp8LE/s1600/CAC2011.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U6ZE0Q7Vy-A/Tr0RXjv0bEI/AAAAAAAAAEU/SEGmu3bp8LE/s200/CAC2011.png" width="148" /></a></div><br />
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Access the <a href="http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=702">full text of this report</a> from Freedom House. It analyses democratic governance in 35 nations it regards as being at a crossroads on the road to full democracy. These include a number of nations affected by the Arab spring including Algeria, Syria and Egypt. Topics covered include civil liberties, corruption, civil liberties and the rule of law.<br />
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Other similar useful sites include </span><a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/recent" style="font-size: 15px;">Amnesty international reports<span id="goog_582046609"></span> </a> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/">SADA</a> from the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace – this site formerly called the Arab reform bulletin has blogs, articles and news discussing Arab reform. These include bilingual contributions in English/ Arabic.</span></div>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-19839524091064344362011-11-11T12:09:00.000+00:002011-11-11T12:09:08.360+00:00Citing Datasets <img src="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2010/04/jisc10/virtualgoodybag/~/media/JISC/events/2010/04/goodybag/dccphase3.ashx" /><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Digital Curation Centre has published a new guide to <a href="http://www.dcc.ac.uk/news/new-dcc-guide-citing-datasets">citing datasets</a>. The guide covers elements of data citation, challenges involved in citing and linking to datasets associated with research.</span>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-3349574708046242432011-11-04T10:09:00.000+00:002011-11-04T10:09:09.553+00:00Libya Conflict: Institute for the Study of War<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xywfuMEVYiI/TrO4WMGIRbI/AAAAAAAAAEE/3N23SRgTj8A/s1600/Libya.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xywfuMEVYiI/TrO4WMGIRbI/AAAAAAAAAEE/3N23SRgTj8A/s1600/Libya.jpeg" /></a></div><br />
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<strong>Catastrophe: what went wrong in Zimbabwe?</strong><br />
<em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Speakers</span></em><strong>Richard Bourne OBE, </strong><em>Author of ‘Catastrophe: what went wrong in Zimbabwe?’</em><strong><br />
Jocelyn Alexander, </strong><em>Professor of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford University</em><br />
<strong>Wilf Mbanga, </strong><em>Editor of ‘The Zimbabwean’</em><br />
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<strong>Dr. Leo Zeilig, </strong><em>Assistant Director, Commonwealth Advisory Bureau</em><br />
<strong>Time:</strong> 17:30-19:30<br />
<strong>Venue:</strong> Room 349, Senate House, WC1E 7HU<br />
<em>Book signing and reception to follow the panel discussion.</em><br />
To register interest or enquire, please email: <a href="mailto:teres.king@sas.ac.uk" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">teres.king@sas.ac.uk</a>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-35697085199930574682011-09-29T11:37:00.000+01:002011-09-29T11:37:45.035+01:00BLDS Digital Library<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ysZbW0_JhD8/ToRKLw1fBcI/AAAAAAAAAD0/hIIv-wTixOo/s1600/blds_logo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="41" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ysZbW0_JhD8/ToRKLw1fBcI/AAAAAAAAAD0/hIIv-wTixOo/s320/blds_logo.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div>The <a href="http://www.blds.ids.ac.uk/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><u>British Library for Development Studies</u></span></a> (BLDS) has the largest collection of economic and social development materials in Europe and over half of it originates from developing countries. But until now, much of the BLDS physical collection has only been available to visitors to the library or users of its Document Delivery service. BLDS is hoping that its newly-launched <a href="http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/3" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><u>Digital Library</u></span></a> will help redress the situation by making developing country research more accessible and visible online</div><div> </div><div>The new service, funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, has been created to help decades of research from developing country institutions enjoy a wider global readership. BLDS is working with partner research institutes in Africa and Asia, to digitise their printed publications and host them online so they can be easily found through search engines. Nearly 600 papers have been digitised so far from Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and India, with more to be added in coming months as BLDS continues building partnerships with research institutes. The publications in the BLDS Digital Library are being made available through a Creative Commons licence which enables future sharing and dissemination of this content by others.</div><div>For more information on the BLDS Digital Library, contact<a href="mailto:h.rowsell@ids.ac.uk" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><u>Henry Rowsell</u></span></a></div><div>or visit the BLDS Global Projects webpage at<a href="http://blds.ids.ac.uk/global-projects" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><u>http://blds.ids.ac.uk/global-<wbr></wbr>projects</u></span></a></div>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-32618489528435785772011-08-18T14:58:00.000+01:002011-08-18T14:58:06.714+01:00Uppsala Conflict Data Programme<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eu_GY4JHQhs/Tk0ZFdGcOjI/AAAAAAAAADw/mBdAkMACUPk/s1600/22975_UU_logga_transp.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eu_GY4JHQhs/Tk0ZFdGcOjI/AAAAAAAAADw/mBdAkMACUPk/s1600/22975_UU_logga_transp.png" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It includes an encyclopedia with graphs and maps which covers the period 1946 onwards and is updated several times per year. <a href="http://www.ucdp.uu.se/gpdatabase/search.php" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">http://www.ucdp.uu.se/<wbr></wbr></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.ucdp.uu.se/gpdatabase/search.php" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">gpdatabase/search.php</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">On a related theme the Correlates of War project also has data on conflicts -intra and interstate some of which covers 1816 onwards: <a href="http://www.correlatesofwar.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000cc;">http://www.correlatesofwar.</span><wbr></wbr>org/</a></span><br />
Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-56886598145072954282011-08-11T10:29:00.000+01:002011-08-11T10:29:13.387+01:00Future Gov Asia Pacific<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HdXEjc3KoUI/TkOgckVXjpI/AAAAAAAAADs/4k0gnyjU9xs/s1600/futuregov-logo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HdXEjc3KoUI/TkOgckVXjpI/AAAAAAAAADs/4k0gnyjU9xs/s1600/futuregov-logo.gif" /></a></div><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Doing Business at a Glance which draws on the data and information from the World Bank's 'Doing Business' measuring the ease of doing business according to business regulations in 183 economies. </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If you don't have a smart phone you can still get free access to major series via the World Bank data site </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">http://data.worldbank.org/<wbr></wbr>data-catalog</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">They have also launched a new open finances site </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://finances.worldbank.org/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">https://finances.worldbank.<wbr></wbr>org/</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">where you can get facts on where and how the world bank spends its funds.</span>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-43490838066496470952011-07-21T15:14:00.000+01:002011-07-21T15:14:59.206+01:00The Republic of Southern Sudan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ajveJhg5u9E/Tig0RcC_25I/AAAAAAAAADk/DSzCmO4eeBs/s1600/GOSS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ajveJhg5u9E/Tig0RcC_25I/AAAAAAAAADk/DSzCmO4eeBs/s1600/GOSS.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Republic of Southern Sudan has become the newest member of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">United Nations. Read the official UN resolution from the UN documents system here: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/65/L.84" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">http://www.un.org/ga/search/<wbr></wbr></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/65/L.84" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">view_doc.asp?symbol=A/65/L.84</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Government now has an <a href="http://www.goss.org/">official website</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">which contains, press </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">releases, government structures and information about the constitution. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elections in the news suggests several sites for keeping up with news on the recent elections in Thailand:</span><br />
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</span>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-84664124065524504632011-06-17T10:18:00.000+01:002011-06-17T10:18:52.762+01:00Economic Commission for Africa repository<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5ImSsgaHiWk/Tfsbvw093kI/AAAAAAAAADc/zP8qyCWCsyI/s1600/Africa-Satellite-small-300x271.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5ImSsgaHiWk/Tfsbvw093kI/AAAAAAAAADc/zP8qyCWCsyI/s1600/Africa-Satellite-small-300x271.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"><strong><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">This will hold flagship publications, journals and reports from the regional branch of the UN. It aims to aid historic backfiles of annual reports, ECA conference proceedings and significant publications from the last 50 years. The latter include the African Governance report, African Women's Report, Economic report on Africa, Millennium Development Goals in Africa. Topics include economic development, agriculture, gender, health, international trade and governance.</span></div>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211404552469573025.post-1685700482524516312011-06-10T14:58:00.000+01:002011-06-10T14:58:14.249+01:00Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A1izsLMSyq4/TfIh80hcirI/AAAAAAAAADY/to9k2xG_flw/s1600/protracted-disp-report_hp_jun2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A1izsLMSyq4/TfIh80hcirI/AAAAAAAAADY/to9k2xG_flw/s1600/protracted-disp-report_hp_jun2011.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.internal-displacement.org/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">http://www.internal-<wbr></wbr></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.internal-displacement.org/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">displacement.org/</a></span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Established in 1998 by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the IDP is a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">leading international body monitoring conflict-induced internal </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">displacement worldwide. Its website has a wealth of full text reports </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and statistics. Highlights include annual reports which trace general </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">trends, over 50 country profiles, and reports. Many have up to date maps </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and field reports - for instance see the section on <a href="http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004CFA06/(httpPages)/6A8C6%200A4FEC49F99C1257537005D8B3F?OpenDocument">Libya</a>. </span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For those interested in this topic a key resource remains Forced </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Migration Online</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.forcedmigration.org/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">http://www.forcedmigration.<wbr></wbr>org/</a></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LSE is screening the Sundance award-winning documentary THE FLAW on Monday 6th June at 8.30pm. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">THE FLAW tells the untold story of the financial credit bubble which caused the financial crash. With testimony from bankers, borrowers, brokers and some of the best economics brains in the world, the film challenges easy assumptions about this being simply a tale of greedy bankers and poor regulation. With the imaginative use of archive, harrowing personal stories and gripping graphics, the film shows how excessive income inequality in society leads to economic instability.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Professor Francesco Caselli, Director of Macroeconomics Program in the Centre for Economic Performance and Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at LSE, Philip Coggan - the Buttonwood columnist of <em>The Economist, </em>David Sington, Director of The Flaw, and Professor Robert Wade - Professor of Political Economy and Development in the Department of International Development here at LSE.</span></div><div style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="line-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Further details are available from the <a href="http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2011/20110606t1830vWT.aspx">LSE Website</a></span></b></div>Joanna Tatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731295958684767744noreply@blogger.com0