- How technology networks are transforming the traditional map of development
- Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2001
- This 2001 UNDP Human Development Report looks specifically at how new technologies will affect developing countries and poor people. Many people fear that these technologies may be of little use to the developing world - or that they ...
- Participatory empowerment approaches: to what extent can they challenge national or global forces?
- Parpart / Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University, 2000
- The emphasis of this paper is to critically assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the participation and empowerment approach. It evaluates the underlying assumptions and practices of this approach and explores the possibility that ...
- Defining LDCs as 'weakly industrialised countries' - correlating indebtedness, the UN definition of LDCs, and the concept of the low-income country
- Y. E. Amaïzo / European Union, 2000
- Paper asserts that the concept of an LDC is becoming an obsolete classification, often serving as a conscience-clearer. Paper says that it is time to give thought to the harmonisation of a new framework for defining the weakly industr...
- The limits on how far we can push global economic integration and international institutionalisation
- D. Rodrik / Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2001
- Paper asserts that markets are straining to become global, while the institutions that are required for their effective functioning—legal, social, and political—remain largely parochial and national. Its presents four princi...
- How does trade openness affect poverty?
- World Bank, 2001
- The Global Poverty Report considers the effects of globalizing markets on poverty in developing countries. It outlines the channels through which increased trade openness can affect poverty and examines the evidence from four regions:...
- Whilst geography matters for development, economic growth is not governed by a geographical determinism
- J. V. Henderson; Z Shalizi; A. J. Venables / World Bank, 2001
- Economic development and underdevelopment is one aspect of the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity. This paper reviews existing literature on geography and development, and argues that rigorous theoretical and empirical a...
- Competitive Agricultural Technology Funds in Developing Countries
- G.J. Gill; D. Carney / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999
- Dissatisfaction with traditional mechanisms of funding agricultural research and dissemination (AR&D) in developing countries has led to the introduction of competitive agricultural technology funds (CATFs) in an increasing number...
- Business services in the Globalizing African economies
- P.O. Pedersen / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the wo...
- Trading Agents and other Producer Services in African Industrialisation and Globalisation.
- P.O. Pedersen / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
- Trading agents and other business services play an important role in the globalisation process as mediators of economic links. However, in large parts of Africa trade and business services have traditionally been perceived negatively,...
- Does globalization impede egalitarian redistribution?
- S. Bowles / Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2001
- Paper seeks to answer the following question: in a liberalised world economy, what programs to increase employment and real wages are implementable by democratic nation states acting independently? In the absence of internation...
- Land ceilings: reining in land grabbers or dumbing down the debate?
- GRAIN, 2013
- Governments in a number of countries are trying to address concerns about land grabbing by closing their borders to foreign investors. Are these restrictions effective? Not really, says GRAIN. They give the impression that some...
- Asia’s services sector is set to play a more successful role in the future – lessons from a continental experiment
- D. Park; K. Shin / Asian Development Bank, 2012
- This study argues that the underdeveloped service sector in Asia has the potential to become a new engine of economic growth for developing Asia, though the region has traditionally relied on export-oriented manufacturing to power its...
- An inclusive growth is being materialised in Asia and being dreamed in the Pacific
- C. Sugden / Asian Development Bank, 2012
- The concept of inclusive economic growth (growth coupled with equality of opportunity) offers new directions in the pursuit of development. This study assesses the growth experience of 22 developing economies in Asia and the Pacific r...
- Global Financial Crisis and it’s Impact on overseas employment and international remittance of Bangladesh
- M Kabir 2011
- International remittance is an important source of foreign exchange income for the developing countries including Bangladesh. The remittance has become a focal issue in economic literature over two or more decades for its increasing v...
- The Negative Impact of Globalization on Nigeria
- O. Adesina (ed) / International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2012
- As a member of the international community, Nigeria is not shielded from globalization. However, the country is exposed to both the positive and negative effects of globalization. This paper examines the negative effects of globalizat...
- Poor governance, good business: how land investors target countries with weak governance
- R. Fuentes-Nieva 2013
- Investors are buying up vast tracks of land across the developing world in a modern day ‘land rush’. This analysis by Oxfam explores where land is changing hands and why. It finds that investors appear to be targeting countr...
- The future prosperity of Latin America is attached to an improved and integrated infrastructure
- J.A. Barbero 2011
- In coming decades, Latin America will have the opportunity of consolidating its progress toward comprehensive development. However, this paper argues this will be confirmed only if countries are able to achieve just and equitable soci...
- The Micronesian exodus
- Pacific Institute of Public Policy, 2010
- Micronesia has the highest per capita net emigration rate in the world. This paper provides an overview of the Micronesian migration experience, and shows that a range of public policies can shape a country’s experience with mig...
- Applying the concept of human security to research on the consequences of mining-induced displacement and resettlement
- B. Terminski (ed) / Human Security Gateway, 2012
- The development of international mining projects is one of the most visible consequences of globalisation. But developments in the mining industry are the cause of about 10.3 percent of all displacements in the world. This means that ...
- Another BRIC in the wall? South Africa's developmental impact and contradictory rise in Africa and beyond
- P. Carmody 2012
- Globalisation is transforming the nature of authority in international relations, as hegemony is replaced by geo-governance, involving a more varied set of actors. However, private authority over markets and resources is still often c...
- 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
