Message-ID: <E0yjkEv-0004bP-00@sunx1> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:44:29 +0100 From: Peter Ferguson <mailto:P.Ferguson@SUSSEX.AC.UK> Subject: New information sources on environment/development (Eldis) To: mailto:INTDEV-L@uriacc.uri.edu
NEW ITEMS ADDED TO THE ELDIS DIRECTORY OF INFORMATION SOURCES ON DEVELOPMENT OR THE ENVIRONMENT June 1998
Hot topics guides: a selection of useful documents on topics of current interest
* Evaluation reports of development projects
* Development indicators
* Debt cancellation for the poorest countries: the HIPC Initiative
A short list of selected items added in May/June 1998:
* Emergency situation report on the Sudan: OCHA (OCHA)
* Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP
* Program for Measuring Incremental Costs for the Environment (PRINCE), Global Environment Facility
* The East Asian Currency Crisis: A Survey of the Debate on its Causes and Possible Solutions (IDS)
* Study of GEF project lessons: summary report (GEF; Porter, G.; Resource Futures International)
* The Indonesian Fires and Haze of 1997: The Economic Toll
* An Approach to National Development: Democratic Republic of Congo: The Bechtel report of 1997
* Languages of Instruction: Policy Implications for Education in Africa (IDRC)
* Aid Effectiveness - A Survey of the Recent Empirical Literature (IMF)
* Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective (CDR)
* Linking Biodiversity and Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Food Security (WRI)
* Spilling the Beans: What's wrong with the coffee trade? (Fairtrade Foundation)
* Certified Forestry News (IATP)
* Pipeline Projects, DFID
* Central Statistical Service (CSS), South Africa
* AgEcon Search: agricultural economics working papers
* Global Training Resource Directory (EDI)
Other News * A print version of part of the Eldis database (all the organisational-level records as of December 1997) has been published by UNEP/Infoterra. The book also includes postal, telephone/fax and email addresses for the organisations listed. It may be a useful tool for those with a poor internet connection or who only have email access. Contact mailto:blds.eldis@ids.ac.uk for more information.
* If you are looking for a copy of a development/environment journal, we have begun work on a database listing holdings in major European libraries. Online journals are being included, and article-delivery is also possible.
Full details (with URLs) are available on the Eldis What's New Page at:
* http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.html
Eldis Project based at the Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RE UK
Tel: (+44) 1273 877330 Fax: (+44) 1273 621202 Email: mailto:blds.eldis@ids.ac.uk