- Free Trade with USA – makes Peruvian rural households and children vulnerable
- Javier Escobal; Carmen Ponce / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
- The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and USA officially went into effect on February 1, 2009. It brings trade concessions in return for reducing tariffs to allow US exports into Peru’s domestic market. This may stimulate e...
- Solidarity for development: recent trends in South-South Cooperation (SSC) in the Asia region
- N. Kumar / Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
- The notion of South-South Cooperation (SSC) – capacity building, trade and investment between developing countries for self-reliance and growth – first became popular in the 1960s as former colonies began to address the ch...
- A South African perspective on the World Bank and IMF role in Africa
- O. Edigheji; A. Amuwo / Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2008
- This paper questions the lending progammes of the World Bank (WB), and discusses the significance of its engagement with developing economies. It analyses the history and economics of international development policy vis-à-vis ...
- What can African governments do about failed ‘globalisation?’
- Thandika Mkandawire / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Globalisation in Africa has failed. Not because, as is traditionally argued, African governments haven’t adopted the right structural adjustment policies (SAPs), or because their effects take time to show. Structural adjustment h...
- The language of politicians changes the way we think about welfare
- Guy Standing / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Language is a social force. Today, policy makers use imaginative terms to persuade society that they need to privatise state support for poor people and remove universal, unconditional benefits. Words such as ‘social protection&#...
- Poor conditions for women make society and the economy suffer
- Jane F. Agbu / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Women are still an underclass in Nigeria and Japan, especially at work. Companies discriminate against women. Government and company policies make it difficult for women to combine a job and a family. Consequently, in Japan the popula...
- The Commission for Africa shows old prejudices towards African development
- Adebayo Olukoshi / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- The Commission for Africa, set up by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was meant to have new ideas about African development issues. But it restates existing research and doesn’t solve the problems caused by decades of forced ec...
- Five ingredients for successful academic-community partnerships
- Barbara Cottrell; Jane L. Parpart / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Equality, transparency, communication, empathy and mutual respect – these are the key features of a successful partnership between academics and activists working in international development. Funding agencies and dono...
- What might the international structure look like in 2025?
- National Intelligence Council, USA, 2008
- This paper discusses geo-political global trends towards 2025. It looks at the rise of new players within the international framework, the globalising economy, the potential for conflict, and the demographics of discord. T...
- What can we learn about the new dimensions of growth from the Indian Economy?
- C.P. Chandrasekhar / Third World Network, 2008
- This paper discusses the Indian economy as one of the economies in the developing world that is a “success story” of globalisation. This paper suggests that this success is defined by the high and sustained rates of growth...
- Why are community factors particularly important in a global age?
- C. Marquis; J. Battilana / Harvard Business School, 2007
- This paper develops an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organisations, and why community factors are particularly important in a global age. It aims to redirect theoretical and empirical attention b...
- The Hajj: responding to fact rather than fiction
- D. Clingingsmith; A.I. Khwaja; M. Kremer / Dubai School of Government, 2008
- This brief estimates the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. It results from a survey of 1605 successful and unsuccessful Sunni Hajj applicants from Pakistan, five to eight months after the 2006 Hajj. ...
- Does China’s presence in Africa benefit the continent?
- H. Besada; Y. Wang; J. Whalley / Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2008
- This policy brief documents the size and rate of change of China’s growing presence, focusing primarily on trade and finance. It also discusses the rate of change and looks at projections of its growth. Trade between...
- Mutual benefits in a Chinese-African relationship?
- H. Besada / Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2008
- This paper examines the extent to which China’s engagement with Africa has produced mutual benefits for both and whether Africa is reaping the necessary benefits required for poverty alleviation and economic development. ...
- Openness to trade helps small island states attract foreign investment
- Robert Read / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Foreign direct investment has the potential to contribute to growth and development in small island developing states. But little is known about what drives investment flows to small island states. How do SIDS attract foreign investme...
- Open trading arrangements offer a way forward for global trade
- Ross Garnaut; David Vines / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Negotiating trade liberalisation through the World Trade Organization (WTO) is notoriously difficult. As a result, many countries are pursuing liberalisation among smaller groups. What can be done to ensure that trading arrangements c...
- Trade openness increases inequality in middle-income developing countries
- Elena Meschi; Marco Vivarelli / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Since the early 1980s poor countries have increasingly adopted freer trade policies. Have the resulting higher trade flows widened or narrowed the gap between rich and poor people in developing countries? Research from the ...
- Impact assessments of public-private partnerships only tell part of the story
- Peter L. Thomsen / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Donors are increasingly keen to support public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing countries, but not enough is known about their effects. An evaluation of a partnership established to reduce environmental pollution in Kasur, Pa...
- Well being analysis of migrants from Latin America and Caribbean to the EU
- K. Wright-Revolledo / International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2007
- International migration from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to the EU is important but has received relatively little attention and needs to be better understood. This paper provides a wellbeing analysis of international migrat...
- The potential for south-south co-operation
- INSouth, 2008
- This paper details excerpts from the inaugural address by Indian external affairs Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee at the academic forum of India, Brazil, and South Africa (IBSA) Partnership for Shared Prosperity and Inclusive Globalis...
- Gender and Development: Women Reinventing Globalisation
- Collection of articles on gender and globalisation
- A World Connected
- Website looking at the human face of globalisation
- Global Social Change Research Project: Social, Economic and Political Change
- Dissemination of data and research on global social change
- Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
- Canadian research institue on national and international issues
- Dialogue on globalisation
- Globalisation research and events
- Globalisation, World Bank
- World Bank research pages on globalisation
- Management of social transformations programme Globalisation and Governance (MOST)
- Focus on policy responses to the effects of globalisation.
- Centre for Trade Policy Studies (CTPS)
- Research site with a focus on the benefits of free-trade.
- Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
Institute providing strategic advice on global governance issues
- The Heritage Foundation
- Think-tank focusing on conservative public polcies
