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New on LLRX – Competitive Intelligence: A Selective Resource Guide – September 2013

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Via LLRX.com – Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Completely Updated – September 2013

Sabrina I. Pacifici’s comprehensive current awareness guide focuses on leveraging a selected but wide range of reliable, topical, predominantly free websites and resources. The goal is to support an effective research process to search, discover, access, monitor, analyze and review current and historical data, news, reports, statistics and profiles on companies, markets, countries, people and issues, from a national and a global perspective. Sabrina’s guide is a “best of the Web” resource that encompasses search engines, portals, government sponsored open source databases, alerts, data archives, publisher specific services and applications. All of her recommendations are accompanied by links to trusted content targeted sources that are produced by top media and publishing companies, business, government, academe, IGOs and NGOs.

SNAP/Food Stamp Participation

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Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) – “Hunger and poverty affect far too many Americans. Five things you should know about hunger and poverty are: One in six Americans struggled with hunger in 2012. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), more than 48.9 million Americans lived in households struggling against hunger in 2012.… Continue Reading

Hart on Sovereignty

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Eleftheriadis, Pavlos, Hart on Sovereignty (September 6, 2013). Forthcoming in Andrea Dolcetti, Luís Duarte d’Almeida and James Edwards (eds), Reading HLA Hart’s ‘The Concept of Law’ (Hart Publishing 2013).; Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 85/2013. Available at SSRN “This essay is part of a volume of essays by various authors on the 50 years… Continue Reading

Mapping Arms Data: Visualizing global exports and imports of small arms and ammunition

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“The Mapping Arms Data (MAD) visualization project is produced by PRIO and the Igarapé Institute. It represents an upgrade  of the original global small arms, light weapons and ammunition visualization produced by Google as part of the Google Ideas INFO (Illicit Networks Forces in Opposition) Summit with support from the Igarapé Institute. The data features… Continue Reading

10 Part Series examines rising costs and consequences of higher education

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The Tuition is Too Damn High is a 10-part series that will run in Wonkblog over the next two weeks exploring the causes and consequences of — and potential fixes for — the skyrocketing costs of higher education. This is part one.” By Dylan Matthews “But if the upfront price of college is rising much faster than earnings,… Continue Reading

Spiegel Online – NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data

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“The United States’ National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers. Top secret NSA documents that SPIEGEL has seen explicitly note that the NSA can tap into such information on Apple iPhones, BlackBerry devices and Google’s Android mobile operating system. The documents state that it… Continue Reading

The G-20 and Central Banks in the New World of Unconventional Monetary Policy

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Brookings – Think Tank 20: The G-20 and Central Banks in the New World of Unconventional Monetary Policy “Five years after the first meeting of G-20 leaders, and decisive action by the central banks and treasuries of the world’s major economies that prevented the financial crisis of 2008-2009 from turning into a 1930’s style world-wide… Continue Reading