Message-ID: <E0yVJCX-0000PY-00@sunx1> 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) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
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