New sources on development/environment (Eldis)

Peter Ferguson (mailto:P.Ferguson@SUSSEX.AC.UK)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:03:59 +0100 

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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:03:59 +0100
From: Peter Ferguson <mailto:P.Ferguson@SUSSEX.AC.UK>
Subject:      New sources on development/environment (Eldis)
To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.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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