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- ActivistNet - Economic Development - Internet directory, news and information, and online community for international and economic development. Part of the ActivistNet site.
www.activistnet.org/Categories/EconomicDevelopment.html
- AIDS and Development: What is the link? - The impact of AIDS in developing countries.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/xpress/dex/dex9607.htm
- Courtney Nelson's Development Strategies - An examination of the effects of a human development perspective on international development policies, based upon a 40 year career in the field
www.developmentstrategies.org
- Development Express - A periodic journal published by the Canadian International Development Agency on topics related to the field of international development.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/xpress/dex/xpress_e.htm
- Development: The Need for Reflection - An international conference on international development issues, which challenges the ideal of economic growth. Online versions of papers presented are available.
ww2.mcgill.ca/cdas/conf2000e/open.htm
- Eldis - A gateway to a wide range of information sources on Development and the Environment. Funded by the UK Academic Community.
www.ids.ac.uk/eldis
- FAO: Special Programme for Food Security - Aims at increasing food security in developing countries through increased and stabilized food production on an economically and environmentally sustainable basis using available technology and approaches.
www.fao.org/spfs
- Forum: Habitat in Developing Countries - Aimed at providing information to researchers and professionals working for the improvement of the built environment in developing countries, and at facilitating communications among them.
obelix.polito.it/forum/welcome.htm
- Global Development Network (GDN) - Supporting and linking research and policy institutes involved in the field of development, and whose work is predicated on the notion that ideas matter.
www.gdnet.org
- Information and Communication Technology for Development - Links to relevant Internet resources.
www.un.org/Depts/eca/it.htm
- Information, Mass Media and the Developing World - Canadian government paper that looks at how developing countries are affected by information technology and communications, or lack of them.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/xpress/dex/dex9401.htm
- InterAction - A coalition of more than 160 humanitarian organizations working on disaster relief, refugee-assistance, and sustainable development programs worldwide.
www.interaction.org
- Intermediate Technology - A sustainable development corporation whose mission is to build the technical skills of poor people in developing countries, enabling them to improve the quality of their lives and that of future generations.
www.itdg.org
- International Development Network (IDN) - Promotes sustainable development by providing development related information and resources to individuals, NGOs, companies and government agencies.
www.idn.org
- Local Voices - A forum for debates on civil society, development and anthropology.
www.localvoices.org.uk
- Nomad Net - Views on relief, development and humanitarianism not sanctioned by the establishment.
www.netnomad.com
- OneWorld Online - Featuring a multimedia introduction to human rights and sustainable development, news, reports, in-depth information together with galleries, video and audio from a partnership which now includes over 300 development agencies and NGOs.
www.oneworld.org
- Panos Institute London - Panos produces information for media on global development issues with a developing world perspective. It provides news, radio programs, briefings on topics such as AIDS, environment, economics and women's health.
www.panos.org.uk
- Private Capital Flows to Developing Countries - The role of private foreign capital in the developing countries has increased sharply in the past ten years. This paper analyses the importance of macroeconomic policies, sound financial systems, and corporate governance for managing private financial flows.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/xpress/dex/dex9801.htm
- Talking about Development - An interview series where different professionals, politicians, grassroots activists, and others, talk about what is development and how their work fits in with the larger social, political, and economic framework of the world we live in and the goals they seek.
www-personal.umich.edu/~fiatlux/td
- The Debt Crisis Fifteen Years On - Article from the Canadian government on the international debt crisis.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/xpress/dex/dex9703.htm
- The World Bunk - Humor and education combined in a satirical look at World Bank policies in Third World development.
www.worldbunk.org
- Third World Network Africa - A non-governmental organisation which carries out research and advocacy on issues of social and economic policy that advances the needs and interests of peoples of African and other third world countries. Includes articles, campaigns, networks, publications and links.
twnafrica.org
- Timor Aid - An Australian-based aid organisation, focussing on the island of Timor and neighboring islands. This is non-political, and works in collaboration with local partners in Timor.
www.timoraid.org
- Tourism and Development - Canadian government study that looks at the impact of tourism, both positive and negative, on less developed countries.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/xpress/dex/dex9405.htm
- United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF works for the survival, development and protection of children, guided in its programmes by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. A very comprehensive website.
www.unicef.org
- United Nations Development Program (UNDP) - Through a network of 134 country offices, the UNDP helps people in 174 countries and territories to help themselves, focusing on poverty elimination, environmental regeneration, job creation and the advancement of women. In support of these goals, UNDP is frequently asked to assist in promoting sound governance and market development and to support rebuilding societies in the aftermath of war and humanitarian emergencies.
www.undp.org
- World Bank - Development Marketplace - A forum to encourage cooperation within the development community in the search for solutions to reduce poverty. It is envisioned to be both a series of events as well as an electronic space - to be used by members of the development community in order to find and create new ways of working together.
www.developmentmarketplace.org
- Readings on Poverty, Hunger, and Economic Development - Fits lots of webpages together to present a coherent picture about the amount of food in the world, the role it plays in a capitalist economy, why people are poor, and what measures can be taken to eliminate poverty and hunger.
www.plattsburgh.edu/robbinrh/legacy/hunger_readings.htm
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