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Factbox: Apple, Amazon, Google and tax avoidance schemes

Factbox: Apple, Amazon, Google and tax avoidance schemes

reuters.com –

An investigation by the U.S. Senate showed that the maker of iPads and iPhones had paid just 2 percent tax on income of $74 billion over the past three years, largely by exploiting an unusual loophole in Ireland's tax code. Despite generating $18 billion of revenue in Britain from 2006 to 2011, the Internet search giant paid only $16 million in taxes to British authorities. Google says it does not have a sales presence in Britain and therefore cannot be considered resident for tax purposes more...

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D C on June 9, 2013

Delivery is the G8 yardstick

Delivery is the G8 yardstick

As David Cameron prepares to host the annual meeting of leaders from the world’s richest countries in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, the British government has a unique opportunity to provide leadership on issues at the heart of global poverty and inequality – and to restore the credibility of the G8 in global economic governance. Political leaders will arrive in Lough Erne without their cheque books, and preoccupied by fiscal austerity. The global campaigning on poverty that forced the hand of more...

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D C on June 9, 2013

The Amharic version of the handbook "Participatory 3-Dimensional Modelling: Guiding Principles and Applications" is now available online

The Amharic version of the handbook "Participatory 3-Dimensional Modelling: Guiding Principles and Applications" is now available online

participatorygis.blogspot.nl –

The Amharic version of the handbook "Participatory 3-Dimensional Modelling: Guiding Principles and Applications" is now available as a free download in addition to the English, French and Spanish versions. The Portuguese version is forthcoming.

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Giacomo Rambaldi on June 9, 2013

The Governor’s Solution: How Alaska’s Oil Dividend Could Work in Iraq and Other Oil-Rich Countries

The Governor’s Solution: How Alaska’s Oil Dividend Could Work in Iraq and Other Oil-Rich Countries

international.cgdev.org –

Reliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake. The Governor’s Solution features his firsthand account (PDF) that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humor, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid to each resident every year since 1982. Thirty years more...

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D C on June 9, 2013

UN agencies and partners launch largest ever humanitarian appeal for Syrians: US$4.4 billion needed for emergency aid for 2013

UN agencies and partners launch largest ever humanitarian appeal for Syrians: US$4.4 billion needed for emergency aid for 2013

reliefweb.int –

The United Nations estimates that 6.8 million people in Syria need urgent humanitarian assistance, 4.25 million of them are internally displaced from their homes and nearly half of them are children. At least 1.6 million Syrian refugees are now hosted across several neighbouring countries, including Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt and Iraq. In the last few months the UN, Red Crescent and other international and local humanitarian organizations in Syria have fed up to 2.4 million people per more...

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D C on June 9, 2013

Obama Is An Open Government Pioneer, Spymaster Dataholic

Obama Is An Open Government Pioneer, Spymaster Dataholic

techcrunch.com –

Love him or hate him, President Obama is no hypocrite: he’s been as fiercely innovative at encouraging citizen input to improve governance as he has been in secretly stealing Americans’ private information. Transparent budget spending, crowdsourcing government waste, unprecedented spending on polls, collecting school performance metrics, and rewarding civic app designers have co-existed with a massive expansion in Internet snooping and big-data spying. It’s worth noting that Obama has given more...

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D C on June 9, 2013

Open data and the academy: An evaluation of CKAN for research data management

Open data and the academy: An evaluation of CKAN for research data management

eprints.lincoln.ac.uk –

This paper offers a full and critical evaluation of the open source CKAN software (http://ckan.org) for use as a Research Data Management (RDM) tool within a university environment. It presents a case study of CKAN's implementation and use at the University of Lincoln, UK, and highlights its strengths and current weaknesses as an institutional Research Data Management tool. The author draws on his prior experience of implementing a mixed media Digital Asset Management system (DAM), more...

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D C on June 9, 2013

The Report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda

The Report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda

beyond2015.org –

The Panel came together with a sense of optimism and a deep respect for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The 13 years since the millennium have seen the fastest reduction in poverty in human history: there are half a billion fewer people living below an international poverty line of $1.25 a day. Given this remarkable success, it would be a mistake to simply tear up the MDGs and start from scratch. As world leaders agreed at Rio in 2012, new goals and targets need to be grounded in more...

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D C on June 9, 2013

Africa Development Indicators 2012/13

Africa Development Indicators 2012/13

openknowledge.worldbank.org –

Africa Development Indicators 2012/13 is the most detailed collection of data on Africa. It contains macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators for 53 countries. A companion CD-ROM has additional data, with some 1,700 indicators covering 1961 - 2010. -Basic indicators -National and fiscal accounts -External accounts and exchange rates -Millennium Development Goals -Private sector development -Trade and regional integration -Infrastructure more...

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D C on June 9, 2013

State of School Feeding Worldwide 2013

State of School Feeding Worldwide 2013

openknowledge.worldbank.org –

In 2009, the World Bank (WB) and the World Food Programme (WFP), in collaboration with the Partnership for Child Development (PCD), published an analysis called Rethinking School Feeding. The analysis was undertaken to better understand the growing demand from countries for school feeding programmes that was sparked by the food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008. This report seeks to build on the 2009 analysis and begin a systematic process to better understand the strengths and challenges of more...

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D C on June 9, 2013

Assessing the Reliability of Complex Models: Mathematical and Statistical Foundations of Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification

Assessing the Reliability of Complex Models: Mathematical and Statistical Foundations of Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification

Advances in computing hardware and algorithms have dramatically improved the ability to simulate complex processes computationally. Today's simulation capabilities offer the prospect of addressing questions that in the past could be addressed only by resource-intensive experimentation, if at all. Assessing the Reliability of Complex Models recognizes the ubiquity of uncertainty in computational estimates of reality and the necessity for its quantification. As computational science and more...

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John Daly on June 8, 2013

2013 New York Film Festival

2013 New York Film Festival

youtube.com –

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns to New York screens from June 13 to 23, 2013, with a program of 20 challenging and provocative films from across the globe that call for justice and social change. Now in its 24th edition, the festival will once again be presented at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and this year adds downtown screenings at the IFC Center. Eighteen documentaries and two fiction films will be featured, including 15 New York premieres. Most of the screenings will be more...

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D C on June 8, 2013

The Learning Curve

thelearningcurve.pearson.com –

This report, published by Pearson and written by the Economist Intelligence Unit, is part of a wide-ranging programme of quantitative and qualitative analysis, entitled The Learning Curve. It seeks to further our understanding of what leads to successful educational outcomes – both economic and social. The design and execution of the programme has benefited from the ongoing advice of some of the world’s leading educational scholars. This report itself outlines the main findings from analysis more...

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John Daly on June 8, 2013

Index of cognitive skills and educational attainment

Index of cognitive skills and educational attainment

thelearningcurve.pearson.com –

The Global Index of Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment compares the performance of 39 countries and one region (Hong Kong) on two categories of education: Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment. The Index provides a snapshot of the relative performance of countries based on their education outputs. The indicators used in this Index are: - Cognitive Skills: PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS scores in Reading, Maths and Science- Educational Attainment: literacy and graduation rates

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John Daly on June 8, 2013

Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes 12/2013

Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes 12/2013

A bi-weekly newsletter supported by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit). The newsletter is between 25 and 35 pages in Adobe PDF format - usually not larger than 650 kB and deals with summaries of books, online publications, electronic resources, web pages, training opportunities, conferences and computer and internet tips & tricks. You can download and search back issues (2005 - 2013) of this newsletter at: http://german-practice-collection.org/en/links/newsletters more...

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Dieter Neuvians on June 8, 2013

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