- How can international financial capital be disciplined?
- A. Pettifor / Jubilee Research, 2001
- This article attempts to challenge the dominance of finance capital in our global economy. The article stresses that if we wish to avoid a return to the deflationary era of the 1920's and 1930's, then some means must be found t...
- You Don't have to Be A Giant: How The Changing Terms of Competition in Global Markets are Creating New Possiblities For Danish Companies
- M. Borrus; J. Zysman / Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, 1999
- Globalism has become an emblem for a whole series of dramatic changes in the international economy. The hyperbole in the media and popular novels that suggests a whirling era of giant companies, shifting money, and hapless governments...
- International Development Policy beyond the White Paper
- Overseas Development Institute, 1999
- Full text of speeches given at a series of meetings at ODI, taking forward issues raised in the DFID White Paper and culminating in a meeting with Clare Short, Secretary of State for Development on 9 April 1998.
- Civil society: IISD resource guide
- International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1998
- Bibilography of key paper resources concerning civil society and sustainable development accompanied by short abstracts. Also details of relevant WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
- Water resources managment: IISD resource guide
- International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999
- List of important document (with abstract) and related WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
- Broadening the debate : the Tharaka participatory action research project
- Guido Giarelli / Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1996
- Can we distinguish different types of indigenous knowledge? What are the main characteristics of such types? What is the meaning of sustainable development seen in this light? And how does this affect the research approach used? After...
- Selected NGO reporting on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)
- Corporate Watch, 1998
- Reporting from FOE, Focus, Third World Institute, Corporate Watch and others
- Foreign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 1997
- United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1998
- Innovative analytic bridges are established linking the official data on foreign direct investment flows and related information at the sectoral and company levels found in the specialized press to the information collected directly b...
- Taming the tigers: the IMF and the Asian crisis
- N. Bullard; W. Bello; K Malhotra / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998
- Report begins by describing what actually happened in the three worst hit countries of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. It goes on to explore the human impact of the crisis. These chapters provide the material for a detailed analy...
- Rebuilding Support for International Cooperation: New Constituencies in a Global Village
- L. Box; A. Kruiter / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
- This paper provides a brief overview of changes in the international cooperation constistuencies that support the cooperation efforts of the European Union, its Member States, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The reasons for...
- The Effect of Financial Globalization on the Prospects for Sustainable Development in China
- J Zou / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
- Describes recent changes in capital flows to China in terms of total volume, contribution to China's economic growth, and characteristics by source, sector and regions. Section three highlights the World Bank as an investor in China's...
- Financial Flows and the Environmental Strategy in Indonesia in the 1990s
- A. Irwan / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
- Examination of the rises and falls in international public financial flows to Indonesia; the re-emergence of the International Monetary Fund as a major investor in the economy; and a proposed agenda for Indonesia's environmental movem...
- Fifty Years of the GATT/WTO: Lessons from the Past for Strategies for the Future
- C.F. Bergsten / Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998
- Five major lessons for successful global trade management emerge from the first fifty years of the GATT/WTO system. They need to be applied to the present situation to set the stage for another half century of successful multilateral ...
- DFID White Paper on International Development: articles from Journal of International Development
- Journal of International Development, 1998
- Series of articles from issue 10(2) of the journal covering the UK White Paper. Including: British aid and the White Paper on International Development: dressing a wolf in sheep’s clothing in the emperor’s ne...
- 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 -...
- The Social Consequences of the East Asian Financial Crisis
- Social Crisis in East Asia, World Bank, 1998
- What began as a currency crisis in Thailand has evolved into a social crisis across the region and beyond. Within East Asia it was initially hoped that the crisis would involve a sharp contraction and sharp recovery—a "V"-shaped ...
- Development in the Time of Globalization
- J.M. Rao / Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998
- Paper examines grounds on which a "second opinion" to the Washington Consensus may be constructed using data for a sample of 123 rich and poor nations for the period from 1960 to 1995. The historical record makes abundantly clear that...
- Textiles Beyond the MFA Phase-Out
- D. Spinanger / Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998
- The Uruguay Round (UR) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC), which was meant to undo the MFA, is to be effected by the year 2005 despite inherent tendencies in the past to continually protect textile and clothing (T&C) industr...
- The WTO and Civil Society
- J.A. Scholte / Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998
- In line with a general trend in contemporary global governance, the World Trade Organization has been developing increased links with civil society groups. If conducted well, these contacts can make important contributions towards gre...
- Modelling the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Women, at Work and at Home: IDS research proposal
- A. Wood; M. Fontana / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
- Researching the uneven impact of globalisation (mainly trade) on women and men in developing countries. It aims to construct and apply models to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the monetary economy, the household econom...
- 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
