Message-ID: <E0z18V8-0004bQ-00@sunx1> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:05:06 +0100 From: Peter Ferguson <mailto:P.Ferguson@SUSSEX.AC.UK> Subject: New sources on development/environment (Eldis) To: mailto:INTDEV-L@uriacc.uri.edu
NEW ITEMS ADDED TO THE ELDIS DIRECTORY OF INFORMATION SOURCES ON DEVELOPMENT OR THE ENVIRONMENT July 1998
Hot topics guides: a selection of useful documents on topics of current interest
* Recent poverty research: selection of recent documents and research programmes
* The impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: statistics and analysis of the situation
* Development in the North: examples of "developing country" prescriptions being applied in the "developed countries"
A short selection from the links to full text documents and organisatons added in July:
* Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis Programme (SAEGA), FAO
* The health impact of peri-urban natural resource development (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, DFID / 1998)
* Research priorities in the field of sustainable development (series of papers from the UK's Global Environmental Change Programme / 1998)
* Ethical and Social Reporting Clearinghouse, CEI
* Micro-credit: Alternate Management Systems for Savings and Credit of the Rural Poor: The MYRADA experience (MYRADA / 1998)
* Biopiracy, TRIPS and the Patenting of Asia's Rice Bowl: A collective NGO situationer on IPRs on rice (GRAIN / 1998)
* Papers from East Asia Crisis Workshop, July 1998, Institute of Development Studies Sussex
* The Political Economy of Ethnicity (Centre for the Study of African Economies / 1998)
* Study on National Obstacles to Local Agenda 21 (ICLEI)
* The Bag (Basic Assessment Guide for Human Well-Being) [in relation to sustainable timber operations] (CIFOR, 1998)
* The Future of Food Aid: a Policy Review: Summary of Findings and Recommendations (Overseas Development Institute / 1998
* Miombo Network
* Social Sectors and Development Website of Pakistan
* Standard and Poor's Rating Service
* Development Education Programme (DEP), World Bank
* Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty? (IMF / 1998)
* Health policy in poor countries : weak links in the chain (World Bank / 1998)
Full details, with the Internet addresses for accessing these documents, are available on the Eldis What's New Page at:
* http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.html
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