- Civil Society: The Development Solution?
- North-South Institute, 1996
- Paper begins with the premise that donors' current understanding of the role of 'civil society' depends not on the characteristics of the term - what it is, who is in or out - but on what Northerners are currently saying about the nat...
- The Civil Society Agenda: Switching Gears In The Post Cold War World
- North-South Institute, 1997
- Why are donors talking about civil society? There are a number of factors that may explain the cornucopian expectations - dramatic contextual changes in the way that Northerners, especially Americans, are understanding society's relat...
- Debt relief: UK Government's Response to the Third Report from the Select Committee on International Development
- International Development Committee, UK, 1998
- The International Development Committee reported to the House on Debt Relief in its Third Report of Session 1997-98, published on Thursday 14 May 1998. The Government response to that Report was received on Monday 20 July 1998. It is ...
- Stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gases: physical, biological and socio-economic implications
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1997
- Tutorial and discussion of the technical background to the stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations. Aimed at policy makers
- Distilling the Lessons from the ESAF Reviews [IMF Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility]
- International Monetary Fund, 1998
- Paper begins with a brief summary of lessons for program design; the staff and Executive Directors are encouraged to view this as a checklist (Section II) of areas where programs need to be strengthened. Section III proposes a range o...
- Governance and Policy Formulation
- European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
- Summary proceedings of a 1997 meeting covering: The governance environment (including the evolving role of civil society and extra-governmental organisations) The locus of policy formulation: interface between...
- Putting life before debt
- Development and Peace, Canada, 1997
- Policy document from two networks of Catholic development organizations, the International Co-operation for Development and Solidarity (CIDSE) and Caritas Internationalis (CI), calling for the cancellation of the unpayable debt of the...
- Evaluation reports: Australian Agency for International Development
- Australian Agency for International Development, 1998
- Series of reports on evaluation of Australian development aid including: Evaluation findings: a compilation of AusAID's evaluation and review reports 1992/97 Monitoring and evaluation capacity-building study ...
- Grain Market Research Project, Ethiopia
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- Series of full text papers on grain marketing and food security in Ethiopia. Papers include: Improving information and Performance in Grain Marketing. Tschirley D., Diskin P., Molla D. and Clay D. (September 1995). ...
- Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 1997
- Prospects for Development [World Bank], 1997
- This year’s Global Economic Prospects reviews the implications for developing countries of three important changes in the world economy that globalization is bringing about. First, five large developing and transition economies -...
- Formal farmers organisations in the agricultural technology system: current roles and future challenges (ODI)
- D. Carney / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1996
- Farmers organisations (FOs) need to be relatively sophisticated and well-funded to become involved in agricultural technology development and transfer. This is because of the complexity of understanding members technological needs and...
- Situation and prospects for forest conservation and development: FAO State of the World's Forests 1997: Part 1
- State of the World's Forests, FAO, 1999
- Growth, employment and redistribution: a macroeconomic strategy (South African Government policy document)
- African National Congress, 1999
- A strategy for rebuilding and restructuring the economy is set out in this document, in keeping with the goals set in the Reconstruction and Development Programme. In the context of this integrated economic strategy, we can successful...
- NGDO Charter: Basic Principles of Development and Humanitarian Aid NGOs in the European Union (NGDO-EU)
- TRIALOG, 1999
- Must globalisation force poor countries to suffer poor air quality?
- D Wheeler / New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 2000
- This article looks at whether globalisation could trigger an environmental "race to the bottom", in which competition for investment and jobs relentlessly degrade environmental standards. The "race to the bottom" theory is tested by e...
- Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery
- J. Loxley; V. Jamal / Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999
- Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at ...
- Sustainability of private capital flows to developing countries : is ageneralized reversal likely?
- Leonardo Hernandez; Heinz Rudolph / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Developing countries that undertake adequate domestic reform should continue to expect capital inflows, despite recent events in Mexico and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board's raising of interest rates during 1994. Since 1989, pri...
- Development bank of Latin America
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- United Nations High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP)
- On 9 August 2010, the Secretary-General launched the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) that brings together renowned world figures to formulate a new blueprint for a sustainable future on a planet under increasing stress resulting from human activities. Recognizing that climate change, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, the destruction of ecosystems and shifting demogra...
- Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)
- The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is a network of 22 member country governments that promotes global change research in the region, increases developing country involvement in that research, and strengthens interactions between the science community and policy-makers.
- Belize Red Cross Society
- In the Caribbean, the national Red Cross societies are assisted by the International Federation Secretariat, with regional offices based in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic, with support from the Americas Zone Office based in Panama. The IFRC secretariat provides services that include international coordination of disaster relief, capacity-building of National Societi...
- Brot für die Welt
- "Brot für die Welt" ("Bread for the World") is a programme of help initiated by the protestant churches in Germany. It was set up in Berlin in 1959 and since then has been the responsibility of the “Diakonische Werk”, the Social Service Agency of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD). "Brot für die Welt" works jointly with local churches and par...
- Economics Web Institute
- Institute focusing on economics and management
- Publish What You Fund
- Publish What You Fund campaigns for aid transparency – more and better information about aid. It urges donors to disclose their aid information regularly and promptly, and in a standardised format that will be comparable with other countries and accessible to all. It supports greater disclosure of aid information in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standar...
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
- Policy impact evaluation
