- What are politically viable means of establishing global user charges?
- German Advisory Council on Global Change, 2002
- In this special report, the Council makes recommendations for a politically viable implementation of the concept of global user charges for three specific areas of application: charges on the use of airspace by aviation...
- Grassland tenure in China: influenced by group tenure arrangements and 'fuzzy' boundaries
- T.J. Banks / Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University, 2001
- The primary purpose of this paper is to make a contribution towards extending the coverage of this cropland tenure literature to China's extensive grasslands, which comprise some 40% of its territory. The article finds that: ...
- Environmental variability in an extensive pastoral area northern Xinjiang, China
- T. Banks; S. Doman / Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University, 2001
- This paper considers the degree of environmental variability in an extensive pastoral area of Altay, northern Xinjiang (China); assesses the extent to which institutional arrangements are able to accommodate environmental variability,...
- The Global Development Gateway: a flawed initiative?
- A. Wilks / Bretton Woods Project, 2001
- This article looks at the World Bank's role as a Knowledge Bank. The article in particular investigates the Global Development Gateway. The article finds that: the Gateway it is in fact conceived, designed and operated ...
- The World Bank's water strategy: reveals a fixation with privatisation?
- D. Hall; K. Bayliss; E. Lobina / Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
- This article discusses the World Bank's water strategy. The article is critical of the water strategy. The article suggests that the strategy's limitations stem from the organisation's misplaced faith in the private sector. The...
- World Bank Private Sectore Development Strategy (PSD): has it taken on board past criticism?
- K. Bayliss; D. Hall / Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
- This paper discusses the latest draft of the World Bank Private Sector Development Strategy (PSD - December 2001). The article appears to have taken into account some of the criticisms raised in connection with earlier drafts. ...
- World Bank strategy for Private Sector Development: intends to extend the reach of the market
- K. Bayliss; D. Hall / Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
- In December 2001, the World Bank (WB) issued a revised strategy for Private Sector Development (PSD). This paper reviews the changes made to the strategy in the December draft and considers the Bank's policy position. The artic...
- Indigenous knowledges: undermined by formal education in Eritrea
- A.M. Ismail / IEC-DFID virtual and physical conference: Education for Nomads, Pastoralists and Migrant Fisherfolk., 2002
- This paper examines the education opportunities made available for nomadic people (pastoralists) in eastern Sudan and Western Eritrea. It examines the difficulties faced by the pastoralists of this region and suggests that this has le...
- Does free trade (encouraged by the Bretton Woods institutions) assist the poor?
- J. Mander; D. Barker / Alternet, 2002
- This article criticises the negative impact of the advocates of of economic globalization (World Bank; IMF; WTO) on the world's poor. The article finds that: the advocates of globalisation stress that those that ...
- How the British see the developing world - and why it matters
- Voluntary Service Overseas, 2002
- Report suggesting that many British people have formed negative and inaccurate images of developing countries and that for too long, development agencies and the media have been complicit in promoting an unbalanced picture of third wo...
- World Bank strategy for Private Sector Development: intends to extend the reach of the market
- K. Bayliss; D. Hall / Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
- In December 2001, the World Bank (WB) issued a revised strategy for Private Sector Development (PSD). This paper reviews the changes made to the strategy in the December draft and considers the Bank's policy position. The artic...
- Indigenous knowledges: undermined by formal education in Eritrea
- A.M. Ismail / IEC-DFID virtual and physical conference: Education for Nomads, Pastoralists and Migrant Fisherfolk., 2002
- This paper examines the education opportunities made available for nomadic people (pastoralists) in eastern Sudan and Western Eritrea. It examines the difficulties faced by the pastoralists of this region and suggests that this has le...
- Does free trade (encouraged by the Bretton Woods institutions) assist the poor?
- J. Mander; D. Barker / Alternet, 2002
- This article criticises the negative impact of the advocates of of economic globalization (World Bank; IMF; WTO) on the world's poor. The article finds that: the advocates of globalisation stress that those that ...
- How the British see the developing world - and why it matters
- Voluntary Service Overseas, 2002
- Report suggesting that many British people have formed negative and inaccurate images of developing countries and that for too long, development agencies and the media have been complicit in promoting an unbalanced picture of third wo...
- Large proportion of asylum seekers are qualified
- Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK, 2001
- This report audits the skills and qualifications of about 440 asylum seekers dispersed under the National Asylum Support System (NASS) to Leicester and assesses their potential contribution to the local and regional economy before the...
- Does the Private Sector Development (PSD) strategy foster apartheid?
- Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2001
- This article discusses the World Bank's Private Sector Development Strategy (PSD). The article finds that: the main thrust of the PSD Strategy is not new. It would continue to shape and diminish the role of the s...
- Reform of the IMF and World Bank will bring about space for a new development economics
- M. Weisbrot / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2001
- This article focuses on the role that economist and policy analysts can play in shaping the parameters of the current debate in the direction development economics should take. The article finds that: the credito...
- Joseph Stiglitz on the need to reform the way in which development economics research is undertaken and taught
- J.E. Stiglitz / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2001
- This article discusses the new development agenda and means of challenging the reigning neoliberal paradigm. The limitations of this competitive equilibrium model are widely recognized; it provides an inadequate model of developed cou...
- The developmental agenda in the age of neoliberal globalization
- E. Yeldan / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2001
- This article looks at options for renewed development policy, particularly in relation to globalisation and national policy-making. This article finds that: a consequence of globalisation has been the exposure of...
- Is the Islamic concept of Jihad responsilbe for comtemporary violence and terrorism?
- K.A. El Fadl / Middle East Report, 2001
- This article discusses the politics of power associated with political Islam and fundamentalist puritanism within certain elements of Islam (particularly wahhabism). The article concludes that: the argument that ...
- Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut
- 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.
- ephemera
- ephemera is an independent journal, supported by the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.
- African Monitor
- As a Pan-African body established in 2006, African Monitor aims to assess the link between: The adequacy and appropriateness of the development processes and commitments The extent to which specific development pledges by African governments and their international partners are being kept The extent to which the implementation of development commitmen...
- The Sigma Scan
- The Horizon Scanning Centre has collected 'evidence of the future' from more than 2,000 document sources and interviews with 300 leading thinkers. Sigma has condensed this material into 250 short papers in order to challenge assumptions and spark ideas.
- Eldis Community
- The Eldis Community is a free on-line community where people can meet others involved in international development, discuss important issues and share useful resources. Membership and group creation is free: the service is financially supported by the Eldis donor group. On joining the Eldis Community, you can create your own profile, and thereby get yo...
