- IMF should go back to basics: concentrate on macro policy, crisis avoidance and crisis management
- J. Williamson / International Labour Organization, 2000
- Many of the discussions on a new international financial architecture that were spawned by the east Asian crisis have dealt with the future role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The article suggests that we have heard many ca...
- There is growing prominence for labour and environmental issues at the top of Nike
- D.F. Murphy; D. Mathew / New Academy of Business, UK, 2001
- This case study outlines Nike's experience in developing and implementing various labour practice initiatives in its footwear and apparel factories worldwide. Since the introduction of its first Code of Conduct in 1992, Nike has made ...
- Required: Integration of social and enviromental issues into ethical trade
- M Blowfield / Natural Resources Institute, UK, 1999
- Ethical trade is a fast growing area in terms of literature and practice. This article takes an overview of what is happening in the field, including the unpublished debates of many of ethical trade’s key players. The paper ident...
- Adapting recommended benchmarks for private sector initiatives such as codes of conduct
- International Labour Organization, 1999
- At its meeting during the 273rd Session (November 1998) of the Governing Body, the Working Party on the Social Dimensions of the Liberalization of International Trade requested the International Labour Office to prepare a short and fo...
- Voluntary labour standards help but the worst offences are prevented through binding rules
- R. Howitt / Clean Clothes Campaign, 1998
- Following a request by the Conference of Committee Chairmen of 10 March 1998, the President of Parliament announced at the sitting of 3 April 1998 that the Committee on Development and Cooperation had been authorised to draw up a repo...
- Globalisation has had contradictory effects on women workers and on women's activism
- V.M. Moghadam / Journal of World System Research, 2001
- This paper casts a gender perspective on globalization to illuminate the contradictory effects on women workers and on women ’s activism.The paper begins by examining the various dimensions of globalization (economic,political,an...
- How the economic crisis in Thailand has strengthened the open-market reform vision
- F.C. Deyo / Global Policy Forum, 2000
- This article seeks to assess the extent to which post-crisis economic and social policy has been durably influenced by the political turmoil and conflict rooted in the deep Thai recession of the late 1990s. More specifically the artic...
- Integrated environmental and trade policies lead to sustainable economic growth
- T. Panayotou / Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000
- This article stresses that economic globalization impacts the environment and sustainable development in a wide variety of ways and through a multitude of channels. The primary goals of the paper are: to identify...
- Who are the world's rich, and poor? Is there a world's middle class?
- B. Milanovic; S. Yitzhaki / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2001
- Using national income and expenditure distribution data from 119 countries, this paper decomposes total income inequality between the individuals in the world, by continent and by "region" (countries grouped by income level). It uses ...
- How would a two-stage approach to implementing the Tobin Tax operate?
- H. Patomaki / Network Institute for Global Democratization, Helsinki, 2001
- This Report develops a new approach to making the Tobin tax real. This could be realised in two stages: In its first phase, the system would consist of the euro-EU and a group of other countries EU. However constituted,...
- Features and challenges in applying the sustainable livelihoods approach
- D. Carney / Overseas Development Institute, 1998
- This article outlines some of the features of the 'livelihoods approach' to development, and why these are likely to be more successful in reducing poverty than previous approaches over the past five decades. Casting aside the assumpt...
- Annual report on key poverty targets
- Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
- Argues that a new global strategy against poverty needs to be mounted - with more resources, a sharper focus and a stronger commitment. Based on commitments made at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, developing countries ar...
- Socially responsible globalization: a challenge for the European Union
- B. Deacon / Globalism and Social Policy Programme, Finland, 1999
- Review of the contribution that the EU is and could be making to a socially responsible globalisation. The booklet is highly critical of the EU's vacillation in relation to globalisation
- The Philippines: challenges for sustaining the economic recovery
- M.B. Lamberte / Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
- Discusses the performance of the Philippine economy as it recovers from the Asian financial crisis and the challenges the country faces in sustaining the recovery and propelling the economy to a higher growth path. The economy ...
- Assessing Globalization: briefing papers
- Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank, 2000
- Series of World Bank Briefing Papers looks at how to define globalization and then assesses three leading questions about globalization by looking at the evidence from a large number of countries. Is globalization incr...
- Globalization: Threat or Opportunity?
- International Monetary Fund, 2000
- Short overview of some aspects of globalization, aiming to identify ways in which countries can tap the gains of this process, while remaining realistic about its potential and its risks. Concludes that: as globa...
- Gender issues and their broad economic and social implications in developing and transitional countries
- Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
- Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies. ...
- Budgets as if people mattered: democratizing macroeconomic policies
- N. Cagatay; M Keklik; R Lal; J. Lang / Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
- The concept of 'budgets as if people mattered' is inspired by a large number of initiatives that have emerged around the world during the last fifteen years to examine public budgets through a poverty or gender lens. As many of these ...
- Analyis of globalisation in history
- J.G. Williamson / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2000
- A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time series on wage/rental ratios, land/labor ratios, the terms of trade, and other explanatory variables for: Argentina, Bu...
- Development Southern Africa [Journal]
- Development Bank of Southern Africa, 1999
- Quarterly journal offering a platform for expressing views and encouraging debate among development specialists, policy decision makers, scholars and students in the wider professional fraternity and especially in Southern Africa. The...
- Stability: International Journal of Security & Development
- Stability: International Journal of Security & Development is an open-access journal. It publishes research quickly and free of charge aiming to have a maximal impact upon policy and practice communities. Despite the allocation of significant policy attention and financial resources to a perceived relationship between development assistance, security and stability, a solid evidence...
- Africa Progress Panel
- The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
- World Resources Report (WRR)
- The World Resources Report (WRR) provides policymakers around the world government, civil society, and business with analysis and insight about major environmental and development issues. It is the product of a 20-year partnership among the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Resources Institute.
- IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)
- IDH accelerates and upscales sustainable trade by building impact oriented coalitions of front running multinationals, civil society organisations, governments and other stakeholders. Through convening public and private interests, strengths and knowledge, IDH programs help make sustainability the new norm and deliver impact on Millennium Development Goals 1, 7 and 8.
- The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
- The Finnish Institute of International Affairs is a research institute that produces high quality, topical information on international relations and the EU.
- Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIF)
- The Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) is a political science research centre.
- ephemera
- ephemera is an independent journal, supported by the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.
- Economics Web Institute
- Institute focusing on economics and management
- The Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute (GISPRI)
- Japanese research organisation in a global context
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
