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Sites on Poverty and Development
• Web sites on poverty
and development
A collection of web sites for the study
of topics related to poverty and development, edited by academic
research groups and international organizations.
It includes a special section devoted
to Uganda
Useful websites are included also in the Civil
Society section, which puts together NGOs playing an active
role in the fight against poverty and inequality, and promoting
research activities on topics related to poverty, inequality,
social welfare, development and civic participation
• Web sites on economic
growth
Web sites on economic growth, edited
by academic research groups and international organizations
• Go to the Reading List
Social
capital, growth and development, Social
capital and poverty, Social
capital and transition economies
• Go to
Civil Society section
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Web
Sites on Poverty and Development
Essential
web sites
• ELDIS,
The Gateway to Development Information
ELDIS is a gateway to information on development issues, providing
access to wide range of quality online resources. Eldis is
hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex.
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Network IDEAs
IDEAs or International Development Economics Associates is
a pluralist network of progressive economists across the world.
It seeks to undertake and promote a range of activities including
research, teaching, dissemination and application of critical
analyses of economic policy and development. IDEAs is motivated
by the need to strengthen and develop alternatives to the
current mainstream economic paradigm as formulated by the
neo-liberal orthodoxy.
• Overseas
Development Institute (ODI)
ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international
development and humanitarian issues
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Poverty and Public Policy Group (PPPG)
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) research group on
poverty. PPPG interests span all aspects of public policy
for poverty reduction
•
Poverty Net
The World Bank's web site on poverty
•
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
The International Monetary Fund's web
site on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP)
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PRSP Document Library
A collection of documents on Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers,
edited by the World Bank
• United
Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Agency on human,
social and economic development. From this website you can
download the Human
Development Report
• UNSRID
(United Nations Research Institute for Social Development)
UNRISD is an autonomous United Nations
agency that carries out research on the social dimensions
of contemporary problems affecting development
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Other web
sites
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Africa Development Institute
The African Development Institute, Inc., is an independent,
non-partisan policy research institute aimed at initiating
practical solutions to Africa's developmental crisis
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African Studies Center
Hosted by the University of Pensilvanya, provides one of the
most comprehensive internet links and resources on diasporan
and continental Africa
• Asian
Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank is a multilateral development finance
institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the
Pacific. It is located in Manila, and it owned by 63
members
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Bradford Centre for International Development
Bradford Centre for International Development's (BCID) is
one of the UK's leading university-based centres for development
studies. Its library provides useful online resources on development
studies
•
Bretton Woods Project
Created as an independent initiative by a group of British
non-governmental organisations, it works with an extensive
network to press for increased transparency and civil society
participation in World Bank and IMF policies and interventions
•
Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)
BREAD is a non-profit organization, founded in 2002 dedicated
to encourage research and scholarship in development economics.
The website contains a section on data
from developing countries partitioned into the following
categories: household surveys, firm-level data, and macro
data sources.
•
Center for Aid and Public Expenditure (CAPE)
CAPE carries out high quality policy-focused research on aid
instruments, budget processes and the reform of public expenditure
systems
•
Center for International Development (CID)
This is Harvard’s primary center
for research on sustainable international development. CID
has been established with one overriding conceptual notion:
the need for cross-disciplinary approaches to the challenges
of sustainable development
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Debt Initiative for the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs)
The principal objective of the Debt Initiative for the heavily
indebted poor countries (HIPCs) is to bring the country's
debt burden to sustainable levels, subject to satisfactory
policy performance, so as to ensure that adjustment and reform
efforts are not put at risk by continued high debt and debt
service burdens
• Department
for the international Development (DFID)
The UK Government department working to promote sustainable
development and eliminate world poverty
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Development Gateway
The Development Gateway Foundation helps improve people’s
lives in developing countries by building partnerships and
information systems that provide access to knowledge for development.
•
Dev-Zone Knowledge Centre
The Development Resource Centre (DRC) is a specialist information
and education centre in Aotearoa, New Zealand, focused on
development and global issues. Dev-Zone is the Centre's web
site, providing information services on development and global
issues to NGOs, consultants, universities, community groups,
government departments, libraries, and businesses operating
in the field of overseas aid and development
• Directory
of Development Organizations
Guide to International Organizations, Governments, Private
Sector Institutions, Development Agencies, Universities, Research
and Training Institutes, NGOs/PDOs, Grantmakers, Banks, Microfinance
Institutions and Development Consulting Firms
•
Economic Development Initiatives (EDI)
EDI Ltd (Economic Development Initiatives) is a Tanzanian
Registered company, which is at the forefront of economic
development throughout East Africa, offering expert consultancy,
research and training services to the public, private and
civil society sectors. The website contains a
section on social networks.
•
Eurodad
Eurodad is a network of European development
NGOs working for national economic and international financing
policies that achieve poverty eradication and the empowerment
of the poor
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Eurodad on PRSPs
Eurodad's work on Poverty Reduction Strategy
Papers (PRSP)
• Forum on Science
and Technology for Sustainability
The Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability seeks
to facilitate information exchange and discussion among the
growing and diverse group of individuals, institutions, and
networks engaged in the field of science and technology for
sustainability. The Forum is managed by the Initiative
on Science and Technology for Sustainability, promoted
by the Center for International Development at Harvard University.
•
HungerWeb
A website edited by the Brown University, which provides a
bibliography of links to other sites by topic and focus, with
information relevant to hunger and related issues
•
IFAD Rural Poverty Knowledgebase
The IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural
Development) database on poverty and development in rural
areas
• Institute
for Development Policy and Management
The Institute for Development Policy and Management of the
University of Manchester is the UK’s largest University-based
International Development Studies department. Its objective
is to promote social and economic development, particularly
within lower-income countries and for disadvantaged groups,
by enhancing the capabilities of individuals and organisations
through education, training, consultancy, research and policy
analysis.
• Interamerican Development
Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) supports economic
and social development and regional integration in Latin America
and the Caribbean. It does so mainly through lending to public
institutions, but it also funds some private projects, typically
in infrastructure and capital markets development
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International Development Research Centre
The International Development Research
Centre is a public corporation created by the Parliament of
Canada in 1970 to help developing countries use science and
technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social,
economic, and environmental problems they face
•
Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
IDS is an internationally-renowned centre for research and
teaching on development, established in 1966 at the University
of Sussex, Brighton
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International Index of Economic Freedom
edited by the Heritage Foundation
• International
Institute for Sustainable Development
Independent Canadian research institute
aiming to foster sustainable development by advancing policy
recommendations on international trade and investment, economic
policy, climate change, measurement and indicators, and natural
resource management
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Keysheets for sustainable livelihoods
These Keysheets provide decision-makers with a short, easy
and up-to-date reference on issues relating to sustainable
livelihoods and infrastructure development for the poor. The
Keysheets are produced by ODI for DFID
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Millenium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals commit the international
community to an expanded vision of development, one that vigorously
promotes human development as the key to sustaining social
and economic progress
•
Novartis foundation for sustainable development
The Novartis Foundation aims to improve the quality of life
of the
poorest people in developing countries through programs and
contributions to development policy discussions
•
Participation and civic engagement in poverty reduction strategies
A web site edited by the World Bank. It focuses on the role
of social capital in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
•
Poverty Action Lab
The Poverty Action Lab serves as a focal point for development
and poverty research based on randomized trials. The objective
is to improve the effectiveness of poverty programs by providing
policy makers with clear scientific results that help shape
successful policies to combat poverty. The Poverty Action
Lab is based at the Massachussets Institute of Technology
(MIT).
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Poverty, Inequality and Development Research
ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international
development and humanitarian issues
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Princeton University - Research Program in Development Studies
The RPDS conducts research in economics and related fields
at both a theoretical and empirical level. Its work is funded
in part by the National Institutes of Health, the World Bank,
and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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Queen Elizabeth House, Development Studies at Oxford
A collection of papers on poverty and
development
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SAPRI (Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative)
In order to analyse the impacts that structural adjustment
has had in many developing countries, certain NGOs challanged
the World Bank to undertake a review of structural adjustment
programmes and to explore new adjustment options in conjunction
with CSOs.
Thus, in 1996 SAPRI was developed through consultations between
World Bank country teams and a global network of CSOs formed
for the exercise.
• Water and Sanitation
Program (WSP)
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) began in 1979 as a
cooperative effort between The World Bank and the United Nations
Development Program to look at cost-effective technologies
and models for providing safe water and sanitation to the
world's poor. Today, the Water and Sanitation Program, as
it is now known, focuses much effort on capacity building.
• William Davidson
Institute at the University of Michigan
The William Davidson Institute is a non-profit, independent,
research and educational institute dedicated to developing
and disseminating expertise on issues affecting firms in transition
economies
• World Bank's
World Development Reports
The World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR) is
an invaluable guide to the economic, social and environmental
state of the world today. Each year the WDR provides in depth
analysis of a specific aspect of development
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WWW Virtual Library on Sustainable Development
Pagina di risorse sullo sviluppo, a cura del Center for Economic
and Social Studies on the Environment della Libera Università
di Bruxelles
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Web
sites on economic growth
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Economic Growth Resources
These pages are designed as a resource
for researchers studying economic growth, and are visited
about 70,000 times a year. The website is maintained by Jonathan
Temple and hosted by the University of Bristol
•
Groningen Growth and Development Center
The Groningen Growth and Development
Centre is a research group of economists and economic historians
at the Economics Department of the University of Groningen
•
International Center for Economic Growth
An international research center on economic growth, located
at the University of the Pacific, the oldest private institute
of higher learning in California
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Melchior Minerva Center for Macroeconomics and Growth
The Melchior Minerva Center for Macroeconomics and Economic
Growth was established in March 1999 under the auspices of
the Minerva Stiftung Gesellschaft die Forschung m.b.H. (Munich)
and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Authority for Research
and Development. It is located in the Department of Economics
at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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WebEc Economic Development, Technological Change and Growth
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World Bank's Research on Macroeconomcs and Growth
This website features recent research
by World Bank staff working in the broad area of macroeconomics
and economic growth
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