New information sources on development/environment (ELDIS)

Peter Ferguson (mailto:P.Ferguson@SUSSEX.AC.UK)
Fri, 1 May 1998 18:02:21 +0100

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Date:         Fri, 1 May 1998 18:02:21 +0100
From: Peter Ferguson <mailto:P.Ferguson@SUSSEX.AC.UK>
Subject:      New information sources on development/environment (ELDIS)
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WHAT'S NEW ON THE ELDIS DIRECTORY OF
INFORMATION SOURCES ON DEVELOPMENT
OR THE ENVIRONMENT
April 1998

HOT TOPICS: a listing of materials on currently newsworthy research topics. First topics are:

Financial crisis in Asia Gender policies in development cooperation Participatory soil conservation in Africa DFID White Paper on Aid Policy Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)

NEW ENTRIES IN THE DIRECTORY: a short selection from the materials added recently:

Key sheets for development in the natural environment (DFID; ODI)

Country Gender Profiles (World Bank)

Development of Education in Africa: A Statistical Review (UNESCO)

DAC Source Book on Concepts and Approaches Linked to Gender Equality

World Economic Outlook: May 1998 (IMF)

Agenda 2000: For a Stronger and Wider Union (EU)

ID21 Development Research Reporting Service

Poverty Reduction and the World Bank: Progress in Fiscal 1996 and 1997

World Labour Report 1997-98: Industrial relations, democracy and social stability (ILO)

Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM) database

Lessons learnt from NGO experiences in the water sector: conference proceedings (WEDC)

Making debt relief work: a test of political will (Oxfam)

Evaluation of the implementation of the Global Strategy for Health for All by the year 2000: 1979-1996 (WHO)#

OTHER NEWS: We have been busy redesigning the format of the WWW site in preparation for a mid-term evaluation exercise.

The search options have been simplified and new help files written (including an introduction to how to start a literature search)

For each of the 50 subjects the new format provides: Brief overview of the subject Categorised listing of major resources Search for full-text online documents Simplified search on the IDS Library catalogue

FULL DETAILS AND LINKS ON THE ELDIS WHAT'S NEW PAGE: http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.html

Contact: Peter Ferguson/Tracy Zussman Eldis Project Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex Falmer Brighton BN1 9RE UK

Telephone: +44 1273 877330 Fax: +44 1273 621202 Email: mailto:blds.eldis@sussex.ac.uk