- The Geographic Scope of EC Aid: One or Several Development Policies?
- A. Koulaïmah-Gabriel / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
- This paper describes the origins of the EC development cooperation and its general characteristics. It examines the three regional programmes of the EC and ends with some thoughts on the future challenges to EC development policy in a...
- Livelihoods and Security in Africa: Contending Perspectives in the New Global Order
- G. Hyden / African Studies Quarterly, 1999
- The purpose of this article is not to make an exhaustive analysis of the security literature, but to indicate how principal theoretical perspectives today influence our thinking about peace and security in Africa. Africa is a particul...
- The 1985 - 94 global real estate cycle : its causes and consequences
- Bertrand Renaud / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- The rapid emergence of a global financial system in the late 1980s was signaled in the real estate sector of most OECD countries and some middle income NIE countries by unusually strong booms followed by exceptionally sharp, protracte...
- Of saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania
- Peter Gibbon / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997
- The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a lar...
- The changing structure of transport under trade liberalisation and globalization and its impact on African development
- Poul Ove Pedersen / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
- This article exlores the recent mainstream renaissance in interest into transport and logistics issues. The article suggests that these have become an increasingly important element in the organisation and restructuring of the globali...
- Policies and strategies for poverty reduction in Norwegian development aid: a review
- A. Ofstad; E.N. Tjønneland / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 1999
- Paper provides an overview of Norwegian policiesand strategies for poverty reduction. It assesses Norway’s development aid policy in light of the renewed international donor emphasis on poverty and the ambition of assisting in re...
- Opportunity, empowerment, and security
- World Development Report, World Bank, 2000
- The report builds on the view that poverty means not only low incomes and low consumption but also lack of education and poor nutrition and health. Based on the testimony of poor people themselves, and changes in thinking about povert...
- Strengthening institutional structures to influence policy
- S. Madon / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2000
- International non-government organisations (INGOs) are increasingly regarded as important in their capacity to influence global policy on development issues such as poverty alleviation, sustainable development, and human rights. This ...
- Lessons for a participatory PSRP process
- R. McGee / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
- The paper highlights the lessons learnt from previous participatory policy projects that the author considers need to be heeded if the PSRP approach is to live up to its ambitious rhetoric. Important lessons include Enc...
- Public investment as a tool for avoiding regional disparities and assisting small farmers
- S. Hirashima / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000
- This paper examines the role of public investment in agriculture and land market development in the context of economic reforms and globalisation. Paper indicates: Agriculture is vital to food security and employ...
- Gender Implications of Globalization: With specific reference to the Asian Financial Crisis
- M. Carr / United Nations Development Fund for Women, 1998
- Bridging the gap?: the parallel universes of the non-profit and non-governmental organisation research traditions and the changing context of voluntary action
- D. Lewis / Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 1998
- Makes a set of general observations about international third sector research and argues that there are currently two 'parallel universes' of literature. The first of these is work which focuses on the 'North' (on what are often terme...
- Job and Skill Impacts of New Technology in the East Asian Electronics Industry: Findings from Recent Literature and Annotated Bibliography
- R. Heeks; A. Slamen-McCann / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1996
- This paper reviews recent (post-1985) research literature on job and skill impacts associated with new manufacturing technologies and more globalised production in the East Asian electronics export industry. It describes the unique de...
- Striving for international competitiveness : lessons from electronics for developing countries : synthesis of findings from the research project "Technological change and the electronics sector, perspectives and policy options for newly industrialising economies"
- Jan Maarten de Vet / OECD Development Centre, 1993
- Electronics has become critically important in every country's attempt to restructure or build its competitiveness. The developments in electronics have given rise to an industry with an unprecedented growth record in terms of sales a...
- The OECD Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI): update
- Oxfam, 1998
- The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is a new investment treaty being negotiated between the world's industrialised countries in the OECD. This briefing paper explains why Oxfam believes that the draft MAI falls far short of...
- Strategies for Eliminating Child Labour: prevention, removal and rehabilitation: synthesis paper for International Child Labour Conference (Oslo)
- International Labour Organization, 1997
- Globalization and growth prospects in Arab countries / prepared by Patricia Alonso-Gamo, Annalisa Fedelino, and Sebastian Paris Horvitz
- Patricia Alonso-Gamo / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- World Labour Report 1997-98: Industrial relations, democracy and social stability
- International Labour Organization, 1999
- The summary and statistical appendix of this report are available on WWW. Statistics cover: trade union membership and activities; number of strikes; collective bargaining structures; unemplyment and labour force structure. Tra...
- Globalisation and Gender Development: Perspectives and Interventions
- A. Keller-Herzog 1996
- Canada's official foreign policy statement, Canada in the World, recognises that globalisation has dramatic economiceffects. Globalisation has become the watchword of the 1990s for an important structural trend characterising the dyna...
- Women, Trade and Globalization Digest (GSD)
- 1999
- 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
