please help!

[lcg]

i know this isn't a usual place to post this, but mr kicker is tearing his hair out about data he needs for his msc dissertation. we have seriously tried everything we can think of, but either come up with foreign articles or stuff on sale for $400!!!!!! he needs (specifically):
*the german budgets from 2008 onwards (in english)
*social security legislation (pensions, unemployment benefit, sickness benefit changes etc.)

if anyone can help with this, it would literally save his bacon. or........can anyone translate german very quickly for free (as we are completely broke and can't get this done professionally as it would costs too much and he needs this stuff asap). we just didn't realise how ridiculously difficult this would be. the context in which his dissertation is set is comparing english vs. german budgets/social security in times of financial retrenchment. many, many thanks in advance for any help or direction x x x x x x x <!>

[wolf63]

I usually start at Google or go to wiki for ideas

[suechu]

Googletranslate? Wish I could help more.

[NOX]

http://www.dandc.eu/r...tml#Tregister_en_10_9

http://finance.mapsofworld.com/budget/germany/

My little girl (14) lives in Germany with her mother, I can certainly ask her if she can help you translate anything you might be stuck on but the links I have provided are in English and have further links which hopefully might help.

[abstibus]

Could you make any progress with the CIA yearbook? He might be able to find links from there.

https://www.cia.gov/l...factbook/geos/gm.html

[Eve]

This is the best I could find for social security law:

http://www.sozialgese....de/gesetze/index.php

It's in German though - I haven't studied it for a long time and very rusty.

Couldn't find any downloadable budgets though, just general information on the Bundestag site. Could he contact them direct? See if they can help him with links or attachments of publications of an official nature (and preferably translation) than anything googled with it being for a dissertation?

https://www.bundestag...ice/contact/index.jsp

[Eve]

Also, be very very wary of online translation (ie in type it in for automatic translation) - they don't translate accurately.

[Ellipsis]

Go to http://translate.google.com/#de|en|

Go to the German article you wish to translate
Click in the Address Bar of the browser (where the URL is) and click Ctrl-A (to highlight the whole address) then Ctrl-C (to copy it to the clipboard)
Go to http://translate.google.com/#de|en|
Click in the box on the left
Hit Ctrl-V to paste the URL of the German article into Google Translate
Click the Translate button
Click the URL that appears in the box on the right
You are now reading the translated article!

The translation is not perfect but it's pretty good! Here is one of the links posted by Jenna1978 above, translated into English:

http://translate.goog...e%2Findex.php&act=url

[Eve]

Federal Budget Info etc...

http://www.bundesfina.../node.html?__nnn=true

[abstibus]

Research briefing from Deutsche Bank:
http://www.dbresearch...Growth-compatible.PDF

[abstibus]

Also, I would suggest a look at OECD publications. Most of these should be available through his ATHENS log-in.
Here's a taster:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/22/49616833.pdf

[lcg]

thank you so much...there is some good info here. i will pass these on to mr kicker as a start for his exploring tomorrow. poor thing has taken a sleeping tablet as he had a banging headache and was so stressed. if anyone can keep finding anything else, that would be great. i wonder why it is so difficult to find this stuff, particularly in year order. he can find tons of info on sweden and france quite easily - but not germany. please keep digging if you can. thank you! x

[jno]

if you could make do with newspaper reports, both the Times and Financial Times will have covered the budgets, almost certainly in more detail than other British newspapers. I think you have to pay to get onto the Times website, but you should be able to access the FT's (I think you need to register but can see a certain number of articles for free).