This is a
selective guide to resources at Columbia University
Libraries and on the Internet, for conducting research on
international economic and political development issues. Please
consult
CLIO or
Pegasus for other materials in the Columbia University
Libraries.
Other related guides that may be of interest are:
Population,
Migration, and Refugee Studies: Information
Resources
Women
in Development: Information Resources
For
resources on specific countries or regions of the world, consult the
guides prepared by the Area
Studies Division
Access Restrictions: available to current
Columbia faculty, staff and students only.
Columbia Resources
- SIPA
Program in Economic and Political Development
- SIPA Program
in Economic Policy Management
- SIPA
Program in International Economic Policy
Finding Books
- CLIO:
Columbia Libraries Online Catalog
- CLIO is the online catalog for the Columbia and Barnard
libraries. It includes over 4 million records for books, journal
or newspaper titles (not articles), online resources, government
documents, microforms, sound or video recordings, archival
collections, etc.
- WorldCat
- An online catalog of the collections of 24,000 member
libraries of the OCLC consortium, comprising more than 36 million
records for books, serials, manuscript collections, audiovisual
materials, computer files, and other media.
- BorrowDirect
- A borrowing service offered by the university libraries of
Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and
Yale. It is designed to allow students, faculty and staff to
request (and receive in four days) books directly
from each other's collections.
-
- AccessUN
- Indexes current and retrospective UN documents and
publications and documents, including articles appearing in UN
periodicals.
- British Library
for Development Studies
- Search all serial titles, monographs acquired since 1987 and
articles selectively indexed since 1990.
- CIAO:
Columbia International Affairs Online
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be
the most comprehensive source for theory and research in
international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship
from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research
institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded
research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
- Corruption:
a Review of Recent Literature (2000)
- This annotated bibliography on "corruption" is commissioned by
the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, NORAD. It has
been compiled from a number of sources, from books and articles,
library searches, Internet sources (like Transparency
International and the World Bank bibliographies), and from
conferences and colleagues.
- Corruption
and Poverty: a Selected and Annotated Bibliography
(2003)
- The
Economist Intelligence Unit
- Includes full-text databases, e.g. Country Reports, regional
newsletters, and a time series database providing information and
data on over 190 countries. Information is presented as analysis,
briefings, commentary, or forecasts. The time series database
provides 270 series for 115 countries.
- JOLIS:
Joint World Bank & IMF Libraries Online
Catalog
- Development
Experience Clearinghouse
- A family of bibliographic databases that contains records for
over 100,000 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
technical and program documents.
- Global
Development Alliance
- Links to full text reports on development topics, for
developing countries.
- UN
System Pathfinder: Economic Development
- The purpose of this Pathfinder is to identify major
publications of the organizations comprising the United Nations
system. Materials were selected with a view to currency, relevance
and usefulness. It includes global studies and reports, handbooks
and guides, bibliographies and indices, international statistical
publications, compilations of treaties, resolutions and documents
as well as annual reports of UN bodies and specialized agencies.
Finding Journal Articles
- Abstracts on Rural Development in the
Tropics. Bimonthly.
- Amsterdam : Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen KIT,
1985-1994.
- HC 695 .A81 - Lehman
- AccessUN
- Indexes current and retrospective UN documents and
publications and documents, including articles appearing in UN
periodicals.
-
AGRICOLA
- AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic
database of citations to the agricultural literature created by
the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. The records
describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of
agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and
veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry,
aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems,
agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human
nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
- International Development
Abstracts. Bimonthly.
- Norwich <Norfolk> : Geo Abstracts, 1982-
- HC 59.7 .I11 - Lehman Index Tables
- International
Political Science Abstracts. Bimonthly.
- Paris: International Political Science Association, 1951-
- JA 36 .I5 - Lehman Reference
- R053 In8 - Butler Reference
- PAIS
International. Monthly.
- New York : Public Affairs Information Service, 1915-
- Z 7163 .P922 - Lehman Reference
- Rural Development Abstracts. Bimonthly.
- Farnham Royal, Eng. : Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1978-
- Z 5074.E3 R8 - Lehman Reference
- SourceOECD
Directories
- Directory of Agencies and Institutions in Public
Administration and Finance.
- New York : United Nations, 1997.
- JA 27 .U54 1997g - Lehman Reference
- Directory of
Development Organizations
- The Directory is a compilation of contact data of the main
sources of assistance available for private sector development
(micro, small an medium-sized enterprises) and poverty reduction.
A wide range of organizations is included in the Directory:
international organizations, government ministries, private sector
institutions, development agencies, universities, research and
training institutes, NGOs/PDOs, grantmakers, banks, microfinance
institutions, and development consulting firms.
- Directory of National Commissions on Sustainable
Development.
- Washington, D.C. : Earth Council, 1994.
- HC 79 .E5 D54 1994g - Lehman Reference
- Directory of Non-governmental Development
Organisations in OECD Member Countries.
- Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Centre,
1990.
- HD 82 .D597 1990g - Business Reference, Lehman Reference
- Directory of Research and Development Institutes in
the ESCWA Members Countries. 2nd ed.
- New York : United Nations, 2001.
- H 62.5 .M53 D57 2001g - Lehman Reference
- Directory of Trade and Investment Related
Organizations of Developing Countries and Areas in Asia and the
Pacific. Biennial.
- New York : United Nations, 1995-
- HF 3751.8 .D57 - Business Reference
- International Organizations Funding
Directory.
- London : Europa, 2004.
- JZ 4839 .I68 2004g - Lehman Reference
- USAID
Yellow Book
- A comprehensive directory of contracts, grants and cooperative
agreements with universities, firms and non-profit
institutions.
- The World Bank Group Directory. 4/yr.
- Washington, D.C. : Information, Technology & Facilities
Dept., 1995-
- HG 3881.5 .W57 I58 - Latest in Business Reference
Background Sources
- Annual
Review of Development Effectiveness.
- Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1998-
- HG 3881.5 .W57 E932 - Business Reference
- Arab Human
Development Report.
- New York : United Nations Development Programme, Regional
Bureau for Arab States, c2002-
- HN 766 .A85 A73 - Lehman
- Arnold, Guy.
- Historical Dictionary of Aid and Development
Organizations.
- Lanham, Md. ; London : Scarecrow Press, 1996.
- HC 60 .A738 1996 - Lehman Reference
- Canadian Development Report: 2003,
2004,
2005
- Each annual issue of the Canadian Development Report examines
a specific issue facing the developing world.
- Corruption
Surveys and Indexes, from Transparency International.
- Global
Corruption Report
- A
Developing World
- A Developing World is produced by the Canadian Geographic
Enterprises and Canadian International Development Agency. It is
an interactive map which allows you to click on continents,
regions or countries and find more detailed information, even
comparing them with other countries. You can also take a thematic
approach and find out more about population, poverty and hunger,
health, education, environment and HIV/AIDS at the global level,
and in specific regions/countries.
- Dictionary of Development: Third World Economy,
Environment, Society. 2 vols.
- New York : Garland Pub., 1990.
- HC 59.7 .D513 1990 - Lehman Reference
- Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental
Policy.
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
- HC 79 .E5 G85 2001 - Lehman Reference
- Brief definitions and descriptions of issues, concepts, and
terms.
- Human
Development Report. Annual.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1990-
- HD 72 .H8 - Latest in Lehman Reference
- Industrial
Development Report. Annual.
- Vienna : United Nations Industrial Development Organization,
1985- .
- HC 59.69 .I53 - Business
- The
International Budget Project
- Assists non-governmental organizations and researchers in
analyzing and improving budget policies and decision-making
processes, particularly in the developing world.
- The International Glossary on Poverty.
- London ; New York : Zed Books, 1999.
- HC 79 .P6 I52 1999 - Lehman Reference
- Kurian, George Thomas.
- Encyclopedia of the Third World. 4th ed.
- New York : Facts on File, 1992.
- HC 59.7 .K87 1992 - Lehman Reference
- R910.3 K961 - Butler Reference
- The
Least Developed Countries ... Report. Annual.
- New York : United Nations, 1984-
- HC 59.7 .L3219 - Latest in Lehman Reference
- Millennium
Development Goals
- Previously known as the International Development Goals, the
UN General Assembly recognized the Millennium Development Goals as
part of the road map for implementing the Millennium Declaration.
The Goals set targets for reductions in poverty, improvements in
health and education, and protection of the environment. They
distill the experience of many years, expressed in the resolutions
of major United Nations conferences. The goals have been adopted
by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the members of
the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, and many other
agencies. The goals measure progress from 1990 and look to what
can be accomplished by 2015. The site looks at the world through
21 indicators that measure progress toward the goals.
- The Reality of Aid: an Independent Review of
International Aid. Annual.
- London : Earthscan Publications Ltd., 1993-
- HC 59.8 .R43 - Business
- State of
the World: a Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a
Sustainable Society. Annual.
- New York : Norton, c1984-
- HC 59 .S73 - Business, Lehman (Latest in Reference)
- The web version provides abstracts of each chapter for the
latest edition, full text for the older editions.
- Thomas, Alan.
- Third World Atlas.
- Buckingham, U.K. : Open University Press, 1994.
- R912 T36 - Butler Reference
- G 1046 .G1 C7 1994 - Lehman Reference
- Trade & Development Report. Annual.
- New York : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,
1981-
- HD 82 .U56 - Latest in Business Reference
- Web versions: 2001,
2002,
2003,
2004, 2005
- WIDER
World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
- The Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division of the
United Nations Development Programme and the World Institute for
Development Economics Research have produced this database with
information on 149 countries, from 1950 to 2003.
- World
Economic Outlook.
- Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1980-
- HC 59 .W65 - Latest in Business Reference
- World
Investment Report. Annual.
- New York : United Nations, 1991-
- HG 4538 .W74 - Business
- World Survey on the Role of Women in
Development. Quinquennial. 1986-
- New York : United Nations, [1986-
- HQ 1240 .W676 - Lehman
- Web
version, 1999
- Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment
and Development. Annual.
- London : Earthscan, c1998-
- HC 79 .E5 G741 - Lehman Reference
U.S. Government & Canadian Government
Agencies
- Agency for
International Development (USAID)
- The U.S. Agency for International Development is an
independent government agency that conducts foreign assistance and
humanitarian aid to advance the political and economic interests
of the United States.
- Canadian
International Development Agency
- Export-Import Bank of
the United States
- Ex-Im Bank's mission is to create jobs through exports. It
provides guarantees of working capital loans for U.S. exporters,
and it guarantees the repayment of loans or makes loans to foreign
purchasers of U.S. goods and services. While Ex-Im Bank is not a
foreign aid or development agency, its programs often help U.S.
exporters participate in development projects. Ex-Im Bank has
co-financed projects with the U.S. Agency for International
Development, the World Bank, and regional development banks.
- Foreign
Agricultural Service (FAS)
- FAS is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
that represents the diverse interests of U.S. farmers and the food
and agricultural sector abroad. It also collects, analyzes, and
disseminates information about global supply and demand, trade
trends, and emerging market opportunities. FAS seeks improved
market access for U.S. products and implements programs designed
to build new markets and to maintain the competitive position of
U.S. products in the global marketplace. FAS also carries out food
aid and market-related technical assistance programs, as well as
operates a variety of Congressionally mandated import and export
programs.
- Peace
Corps
- U.S. Trade and
Development Agency
- The U.S. Trade and Development Agency assists in the creation
of jobs for Americans by helping U.S. companies pursue overseas
business opportunities. Through the funding of feasibility
studies, orientation visits, specialized training grants, business
workshops, and various forms of technical assistance, we help
American businesses compete for infrastructure and industrial
projects in middle-income and developing countries.
Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
- African Development
Bank
Publications:
-
- African Development Report.
Semiannual
HC 800 .A1 A355 - Business
- Economic Report on Africa. Annual.
1996-
HC 800 .A1 A354 - Latest in Business Reference
- Asian Development
Bank
Publications:
-
- Asian Development Outlook. Annual.
1989-
HC 411 .A76 - Latest in Business Reference
- Asian
Development Review. Quarterly.
Serials A -
Business
- Caribbean
Development Bank
- European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development
Financing the
economic transition in central and eastern Europe and the
CIS.
Publications:
-
- Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO): Sustainable Development
Dimensions
Publications:
-
- Inter-American
Development Bank
Publications:
-
- International Labour
Organization (ILO)
Publications:
-
- International Labour
Review. Monthly.
Geneva, International Labour
Office, 1921-
Current Issues - Serials I -
Business
MICROFLM FN 1536 - Business
- International Monetary
Fund (IMF)
- The role of the IMF is to promote international monetary
cooperation, to facilitate the expansion and balanced growth of
international trade, and to promote stability in foreign exchange.
The IMF has no authority over the domestic economic policies of
its members.
- See
The Role of the IMF for more detailed
information.
- Debt
Relief Under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)
Initiative
- The IMF and the World Bank have designed a framework to
provide special assistance for heavily indebted poor countries
that pursue IMF- and World Bank-supported adjustment and reform
programs, but for whom traditional debt relief mechanisms are
insufficient.
- Debt
Relief for Poor Countries Faces Challenges: a review
of the IMF/World Bank program by the U.S. General Accounting
Office, June 2000
- Market
Access for Developing Countries' Exports, April 21,
2001
- IMF Publications:
- Finance
& Development. Quarterly. 1964-
Serials F -
Business; Previous issues on microfilm
- IMF
Survey. Biweekly, 1972-
HG 3881 .I511 - Business
- International
Capital Markets. Annual.
Business - Call
number varies; check CLIO
- IMF Staff Country Reports.
HC 10 .I44 -
Business
A broad range of information is available about each
country at the IMF's
Country Information web site.
- IMF Working Papers.
HG 3810 .I45 -
Business
- Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- OECD is charged with promoting policies designed to: achieve
the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a
rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining
financial stability, and thus contribute to the development of the
world economy; contribute to sound economic expansion in Member as
well as non-Member countries in the process of economic
development; and contribute to the expansion of world trade on a
multilateral, non-discriminatory basis in accordance with
international obligations.
-
SourceOECD
SourceOECD contains the full text of
all OECD publications, 1998-present.
- Organization of American
States (OAS)
- South
Centre
- The South Centre has grown out of the work and experience of
the South Commission and its follow-up office, and from
recognition of the need for enhanced South-South co-operation. It
is intended to meet the need for analysis of development problems
and experience, as well as to provide intellectual and policy
support required by developing countries for collective and
individual action in the international arena.
- United
Nations
-
- Economic and Social
Development: organizes links to UN development
activities by subject
- World
Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 1995
- Social
Summit +5, Geneva, 2000
- World
Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg,
2002
- United Nations
Conference on Trade & Development
-
- GlobStat
- GlobStat provides time series for data on subjects tackled
by UNCTAD such as trade, investment, external finance,
commodities and manufactures, together with relevant facts
about population.
- The
Least Developed, Land-Locked and Island Developing
Countries
- The
Third UN Conference on the Least Developed
Countries, Brussels, 14 - 20 May 2001
- UNCTAD
Digital Library
- United Nations
Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
- The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
promotes the economic and political empowerment of women in
developing countries. It works to ensure the participation of
women in all levels of development planning and practice.
- United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP)
- UNDP's mission is to help countries in their efforts to
achieve sustainable human development by assisting them to build
their capacity to design and carry out development programmes in
poverty eradication, employment creation and sustainable
livelihoods, the empowerment of women and the protection and
regeneration of the environment, giving first priority to
poverty eradication. UNDP, at the request of governments and in
support of its areas of focus, assists in building capacity for
good governance, popular participation, private and public
sector development and growth with equity, stressing that
national plans and priorities constitute the only viable frame
of reference for the national programming of operational
activities for development within the United Nations system.
- Corruption
& Integrity Improvement Initiatives in Developing
Countries
- Human Development
Report Office
- Office of Development
Studies
- UNDP Poverty
Report: Overcoming Human Poverty
- United Nations
Development Update
- United Nations
Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
- UNIDO's vision: To improve the living conditions of people
and promote global prosperity through offering tailor-made
solutions for the sustainable industrial development of
developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
- United Nations
Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
- UNRISD is an autonomous agency engaging in
multi-disciplinary research on the social dimensions of
contemporary problems affecting development. Its mandate is to
study the relationship between social and economic development.
This takes the form of multi-country research.
- United
Nations Scholars' Workstation, Yale University
- United
Nations International Conference on Population and Development
(ICPD), Canada
- Home page for conference in Cairo, Egypt (September
1994)
- World
Bank
- The World Bank Group consists of the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International
Development Association (IDA), the International Finance
Corporation (IFC), and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee
Agency (MIGA). IBRD is the main lending arm of the World Bank. IDA
is the World Bank affiliate that lends on concessional terms to
the poorest countries. IFC finances private sector projects and
advises businesses and governments on investment issues. MIGA
promotes foreign direct investment through guarantees, policy
advice, and promotional services.
- PovertyNet
- Global
Development Gateway, is designed as a portal for
resources and tools on development issues, enabling those in the
field to "share information, easily communicate, and build
communities of practice around significant development challenges
from the grassroots up."
- Regions
and Countries
- Topics
in Development: Agriculture, Economics & Trade,
Environment, Finance & Private Sector Development, Human
Resources & Poverty, Operations, and Research
- Trade & Development
Centre: a joint venture of the World Bank and the
World Trade Organization
- Publications:
- Annual
Review of Development Effectiveness.
Washington,
D.C. : World Bank, 1998-
HG 3881.5 .W57 E932 - Business
Reference
- Financial Flows and the Developing
Countries. Quarterly.
Washington, D.C. : World Bank,
1993-1997.
HG 3891 .F56 - Business
- Global
Development Finance. Annual.
Washington,
D.C. : World Bank, 1997-
HG 4517 .I58 - Business
CD-ROM
HJ8899 .W673 - Electronic Data Service
Formerly World
Debt Tables (Business - HG 4517 .I58, 1975-1996). The
most detailed data available on debt in developing countries. A
comprehensive presentation of data and a review of developments
on external debt of and financial flows to developing countries.
- Global
Poverty Report
A report from the G8 Okinawa
Summit examines the roles which the World Bank, IMF, and
Multilateral Development Banks play in fighting poverty, July
2000.
- Transition
Newsletter
A newsletter analyzing economic and
social developments in transition countries, and reporting on
related research, books, working papers, conferences, and
articles.
- Trends
in Developing
Economies. Annual.
Washington, D.C. : World
Bank, 1989-1996.
HC 59.7 .T739 - Business
Trends in
Developing Economies (TIDE) provides brief reports on most of
the World Bank's borrowing countries. This compendium of
individual country economic trends complements the World Bank's
World Development Report, which looks at major global and
regional economic trends and their implications for the future
prospects of the developing economies. TIDE digests information
from national sources and adds staff commentary to explain
recent developments for the benefits of readers who are familiar
with macroeconomics but not, perhaps, with every country under
review.
- World
Bank Annual Report.
Washington, D.C. : The Bank,
1981-
HG 3881 .W555 - Business1996
- World
Bank Periodicals: all full text!
-
World Development Indicators.
Annual.
Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 1997-
HC 59.15
.W656 - Business, Lehman (Latest in Reference in both
locations)
Formerly Social Indicators of
Development (HC 59.69 .S63 - Business, Lehman,
1988-1996). World Development Indicators features 600 indicators
in 80 statistical tables, organized in six sections: overview,
people, environment, economy, states and markets, and global
links. It provides an expanded view of development for 148
economies and key indicators for 61 more, small economies.
- World Development Indicators on
CD-ROM. Annual.
Washington, D.C. : The World
Bank, 1997-
HC 59.69 .W683 - Electronic Data Service
The
CD-ROM version serves as the World Bank's premier statistical
product. It contains time-series data (mostly 1970 through the
previous year) for nearly 400 of the indicators presented in the
WDI print version, plus 100 additional indicators formerly
included in the World Tables (HC 59 .W669 -
Business, Lehman, 1976-1996). Also replaces the
World*Data CD-ROM (HC 59.69 .W675 - Electronic
Data Service, 1994-1995).
- World
Development Report. Annual.
New York : Oxford
University Press, 1978-
HC 59.7 .W659 - Business,
Lehman
Each issue of World Development Report has a different
theme. Each also contains selected World Development Indicators.
- World
Development Sources
World Development Sources
contains citations to over 6,000 reports. These reports include
Project appraisal reports, Economic and Sector Works, Evaluation
reports and Studies,and working papers.
- World Health Organization
(WHO), Geneva
- The objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the
highest possible level of health. Health, as defined in the WHO
Constitution, is a state of complete physical, mental and social
well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
- Publications:
- World Trade Organization
(WTO)
- The WTO, the successor to GATT, is the only international body
dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are
the WTO agreements, the legal ground-rules for international
commerce and for trade policy. The agreements have three main
objectives: to help trade flow as freely as possible, to achieve
further liberalization gradually through negotiation, and to set
up an impartial means of settling disputes.
- Annual Report.
- HF 1379 .W6 - Business Reference
Non-Governmental Organizations
-
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be
the most comprehensive source for theory and research in
international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship
from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research
institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded
research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
- Academy for Educational
Development (AED)
- The Academy for Educational Development is an independent,
nonprofit service organization committed to addressing human
development needs in the United States and throughout the world.
Under contracts and grants, the Academy operates programs in
collaboration with policy leaders; nongovernmental and
community-based organizations; governmental agencies;
international multilateral and bilateral funders; and schools,
colleges, and universities. In partnership with its clients, the
Academy seeks to meet today's social, economic, and environmental
challenges through education and human resource development; to
apply state-of-the-art education, training, research, technology,
management, behavioral analysis, and social marketing techniques
to solve problems; and to improve knowledge and skills throughout
the world as the most effective means of stimulating growth,
reducing poverty, and promoting democratic and humanitarian
ideals.
- Berkeley
Roundtable on the International Economy UC, Berkeley
- The Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) is
a small, interdisciplinary research project at the University of
California at Berkeley. For nearly fifteen years, BRIE has worked
with academics, business leaders and scholars from around the
world from such wide-ranging disciplines as urban planning,
political science, economics and engineering to consider the
real-world interactions of technology, markets and economies and
to formulate path-breaking positions that challenge conventional
economic policy-making.
- The Carter
Center
- The Carter Center is dedicated to resolving conflicts;
promoting democracy; and fighting disease, hunger, poverty, and
oppression through collaborative initiatives in the areas of
democratization and development, global health, and urban
revitalization. It operates programs in International
Democratization & Development, Global & Domestic Health,
and Urban Revitalization, in 65 countries.
- Centre for Development
and Population Activities (CEDPA)
- The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
is a women-focused nonprofit international organization founded in
1975. CEDPA's mission is to empower women at all levels of society
to be full partners in development. CEDPA's Strategies for
empowerment include building the capacities of development
institutions and networks, mobilizing women's participation at the
policy level, linking reproductive health services and women's
empowerment, and making youth an integral part of the development
agenda. All CEDPA activities are designed to advance gender
equity. Working with partner nongovernmental organizations and
networks in more than 37 countries, CEDPA designs, implements,
monitors, and evaluates projects in family planning and
reproductive health, family life education, women's participation
in empowerment, youth services, and international advocacy for
women and girls.
- Center for Global
Development
- The Center for Global Development is dedicated to reducing
global poverty and inequality through policy-oriented research and
active engagement on development issues with the policy community
and the public. A principal focus of the Center's work will be
policies of the United States and other industrial countries that
affect development prospects in poor countries.
- Development
Initiatives
- DI is an independent organisation concerned with poverty, aid,
development cooperation and international relations. DI works on:
policy analysis, dissemination of information, advocacy and
government relations, NGO management, strategic planning and
evaluation, and stakeholder analysis.
- Eldis: the Gateway to
Development Information
- ELDIS provides an ever increasing number of descriptions and
links to a variety of information sources, including online
documents, organisation's WWW sites, databases, library
catalogues, bibliographies, and email discussion lists, research
project information, map and newspaper collections.
- Includes their Country
Profiles.
- Global Development
Network
- The goal of the Global Development Network (GDN) is to support
and link research and policy institutes involved in the field of
development.
- Institute for
Development Policy and Management, from the
University of Manchester
- It specializes in management and development in developing and
transitional economies.
- International
Development Exchange (IDEX)
- IDEX was founded in 1985 to support community based
development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and to offer U.S.
citizens an avenue for international understanding and action.
IDEX serves as a bridge, linking international communities
undertaking small-scale development projects with supportive
partners, or sponsors, in the U.S.
- The International
Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada
- Through funding of scientific research in Africa, Asia, Latin
America, the Caribbean and Canada, the International Development
Research Centre (IDRC) helps communities in the developing world
find solutions to social, economic and environmental problems.
This site includes information on research and projects as well as
a searchable telnet connection to
their extensive library.
- International
Institute for Environment and Development
- IIED is an independent, non-profit organization promoting
sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative
research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination.
It works to address global issues, for example; mining, the paper
industry and food systems.
- International Institute
for Sustainable Development
- Provides Linkages: a
Multimedia Resource for Environment & Development Policy
Makers
- Institute of
Development Studies, Sussex, UK
- IDS is a leading centre for research and teaching on
international development. Its research interests include
globalisation, sustainable livelihoods, social sector reform, and
public policy for poverty reform, among others.
- Internet Center
for Corruption Research
- Overseas
Development Institute, London, UK
- The Overseas Development Institute is an independent
non-governmental centre for development research and a forum for
discussion of the problems facing developing countries. The
research programme is oriented towards improving policies and
their implementation both within developing countries and at the
British, European Union and international level.
- Open
Society Institute: Economic and Business Development
Program
- In an effort to help build viable market economies and create
new jobs, the Economic and Business Development Program (EBDP)
assists Soros foundations in their work to promote the
restructuring of transitional economies. EBDP serves as a catalyst
for economic development, playing a crucial role in several
areas—particularly microfinance, small business development,
targeted economic policy initiatives, retraining of unemployed and
laid-off military personnel, and entrepreneurship education.
- The Population
Council
- The Population Council is a nonprofit, nongovernmental
research organization established in 1952. Its New York
headquarters supports a global network of regional and country
offices. The Council seeks to improve the wellbeing and
reproductive health of current and future generations around the
world, and to help achieve a humane, equitable and sustainable
balance between people and resources. The Council analyzes
population issues and trends; conducts biomedical research to
develop new contraceptives; works with public and private agencies
to improve the quality and outreach of family planning and
reproductive health services; helps governments to influence
demographic behavior; communicates the results of research in the
population field to appropriate audiences; and helps build
research capacities in developing countries.
- Population Reference
Bureau
- PRB is dedicated to providing timely,objective information on
U.S. and international population trends. We inform policymakers,
educators, the media, and concerned citizens working in the public
interest about the demographic trends that shape our world. PRB is
a nonprofit, nonadvocacy organization.
- Population Research
Institute, Pennsylvania State University
- The Population Research Institute provides an organizational
setting for interdisciplinary population research and training.
The institute includes more than forty faculty associates and
fifty graduate students from eleven different departments in the
social and agricultural sciences and in health-related fields.
- Transparency
International
- "We work to ensure that the agendas of international
organisations give high priority to curbing corruption. We are
promoting new inter-governmental agreements to fight corruption in
an internationally co-ordinated manner. Both the TI Secretariat
and TI National Chapters around the world actively monitor the
implementation of such agreements by the signatory countries. This
includes monitoring of Conventions concluded within the framework
of the OECD, the Council of Europe, the European Union and the
Organisation of American States. Special emphasis is on monitoring
the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public
Officials."
- Corruption
Surveys and Indexes, from Transparency International
- Global Corruption Report
- Virtual
Library on International Development, Canadian
International Development Agency
- The Virtual Library on International Development is a
collection of links to international development-related sites and
documents on the Internet. Criteria for inclusion include quality,
recency and reliability of information provided, along with
demonstrable relevance to international development.
- World Economic
Forum
- Global
Digital Divide Initiative
- Global Competitiveness
Report. Annual.
Geneva : World Economic Forum,
c1996-
HF 1414 .G572 - Business
- World
Neighbors
- World Neighbors is a US-based non-profit organization working
at the forefront of worldwide efforts to eliminate hunger, disease
and poverty in Asia, Latin America and Africa. It encourages
community leadership and self-help in rural communities though 89
programs in food security, community health, and family
planning.
- Worldwatch
Institute
- Worldwatch is a nonprofit public policy research organization
dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging
global problems and trends and the complex links between the world
economy and its environmental support systems.
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