This is a selective guide to resources at Columbia University Libraries and on the Internet, for conducting research on international economic and political development issues. Please consult CLIO or Pegasus for other materials in the Columbia University Libraries.
Other related guides that may be of interest are:
Population, Migration, and Refugee Studies: Information Resources
Women in Development: Information Resources
For resources on specific countries or regions of the world, consult the guides prepared by the Area Studies Division
 Access Restrictions: available to current Columbia faculty, staff and students only.
Columbia Resources
- SIPA Program in Economic and Political Development
- SIPA Program in Economic Policy Management
- SIPA Program in International Economic Policy
Finding Books
- CLIO: Columbia Libraries Online Catalog
- CLIO is the online catalog for the Columbia and Barnard libraries. It includes over 4 million records for books, journal or newspaper titles (not articles), online resources, government documents, microforms, sound or video recordings, archival collections, etc.
- WorldCat
- An online catalog of the collections of 24,000 member libraries of the OCLC consortium, comprising more than 36 million records for books, serials, manuscript collections, audiovisual materials, computer files, and other media.
- BorrowDirect
- A borrowing service offered by the university libraries of Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. It is designed to allow students, faculty and staff to request (and receive in four days) books directly from each other's collections.
- AccessUN
- Indexes current and retrospective UN documents and publications and documents, including articles appearing in UN periodicals.
- British Library for Development Studies
- Search all serial titles, monographs acquired since 1987 and articles selectively indexed since 1990.
- CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
- Literature Survey on Corruption (2000-present) (2000)
- This literature survey from the World Bank collects books, volumes, articles and working papers to inform both policy and scholarly community of the types of works that have been written recently on the subject matter of corruption.
- Corruption and Poverty: a Review of Recent Literature (2003)
- The Economist Intelligence Unit
- Includes full-text databases, e.g. Country Reports, regional newsletters, and a time series database providing information and data on over 190 countries. Information is presented as analysis, briefings, commentary, or forecasts. The time series database provides 270 series for 115 countries.
- JOLIS: Joint World Bank & IMF Libraries Online Catalog
- Development Experience Clearinghouse
- A family of bibliographic databases that contains records for over 100,000 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) technical and program documents, many full text online.
- Links to full text reports on development topics, for developing countries.
- UN System Pathfinder: Economic Development and Development Finance
- The purpose of this Pathfinder is to identify major publications of the organizations comprising the United Nations system. Materials were selected with a view to currency, relevance and usefulness. It includes global studies and reports, handbooks and guides, bibliographies and indices, international statistical publications, compilations of treaties, resolutions and documents as well as annual reports of UN bodies and specialized agencies.
Finding Journal Articles
- Abstracts on Rural Development in the Tropics. Bimonthly.
- Amsterdam : Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen KIT, 1985-1994.
- HC 695 .A81 - Lehman
- AccessUN
- Indexes current and retrospective UN documents and publications and documents, including articles appearing in UN periodicals.
- AGRICOLA
- AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
- EconLit
- EconLit is a comprehensive database for the literature of economics. It includes links to articles from all major economics journals, and citations to books, disserations, and working papers.
- International Development Abstracts. Bimonthly.
- Norwich <Norfolk> : Geo Abstracts, 1982-
- HC 59.7 .I11 - Lehman
- International Political Science Abstracts. Bimonthly.
- Paris: International Political Science Association, 1951-
- JA 36 .I5 - Lehman
- R053 In8 - Butler Reference
- PAIS International. Monthly.
- New York : Public Affairs Information Service, 1915-
- Z 7163 .P922 - Lehman
- Rural Development Abstracts. Bimonthly.
- Farnham Royal, Eng. : Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1978-
- Z 5074.E3 R8 - Lehman
- SourceOECD
Directories
- Directory of Agencies and Institutions in Public Administration and Finance.
- New York : United Nations, 1997.
- JA 27 .U54 1997g - Lehman
- Directory of Development Organizations
- The Directory is a compilation of contact data of the main sources of assistance available for private sector development (micro, small an medium-sized enterprises) and poverty reduction. A wide range of organizations is included in the Directory: international organizations, government ministries, private sector institutions, development agencies, universities, research and training institutes, NGOs/PDOs, grantmakers, banks, microfinance institutions, and development consulting firms.
- Directory of National Commissions on Sustainable Development.
- Washington, D.C. : Earth Council, 1994.
- HC 79 .E5 D54 1994g - Lehman
- Directory of Non-governmental Development Organisations in OECD Member Countries.
- Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Centre, 1990.
- HD 82 .D597 1990g - Business Reference, Lehman
- Directory of Research and Development Institutes in the ESCWA Members Countries. 2nd ed.
- New York : United Nations, 2001.
- H 62.5 .M53 D57 2001g - Lehman
- Directory of Trade and Investment Related Organizations of Developing Countries and Areas in Asia and the Pacific. Biennial.
- New York : United Nations, 1995-
- HF 3751.8 .D57 - Business Reference
- International Organizations Funding Directory.
- London : Europa, 2004.
- JZ 4839 .I68 2004g - Lehman
- USAID Yellow Book
- A comprehensive directory of contracts, grants and cooperative agreements with universities, firms and non-profit institutions.
- The World Bank Group Directory. 4/yr.
- Washington, D.C. : Information, Technology & Facilities Dept., 1995-
- HG 3881.5 .W57 I58 - Latest in Business Reference
Background Sources
- Annual Review of Development Effectiveness.
- Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1998-
- HG 3881.5 .W57 E932 - Business Reference
- Arab Human Development Report.
- New York : United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Arab States, c2002-
- HN 766 .A85 A73 - Lehman
- Arnold, Guy.
- Historical Dictionary of Aid and Development Organizations.
- Lanham, Md. ; London : Scarecrow Press, 1996.
- HC 60 .A738 1996 - Lehman
- Canadian Development Report
- Each annual issue of the Canadian Development Report examines a specific issue facing the developing world.
- Corruption Surveys and Indexes, from Transparency International.
- Global Corruption Report
- A Developing World
- A Developing World is produced by the Canadian Geographic Enterprises and Canadian International Development Agency. It is an interactive map which allows you to click on continents, regions or countries and find more detailed information, even comparing them with other countries. You can also take a thematic approach and find out more about population, poverty and hunger, health, education, environment and HIV/AIDS at the global level, and in specific regions/countries.
- Encyclopedia of Globalization. 4 vols.
- New York : MTM Pub., c2007.
- JZ 1318 .E63 2007 - Lehman
- Encyclopedia of World Poverty. 3 vols.
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2006.
- HV 12 .E54 2006 - Lehman
- Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy.
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
- HC 79 .E5 G85 2001 - Lehman
- Brief definitions and descriptions of issues, concepts, and terms.
- Human Development Report. Annual.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1990-
- HD 72 .H8 - Latest in Lehman
- Industrial Development Report. Annual.
- Vienna : United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1985- .
- HC 59.69 .I53 - Business
- The International Budget Project
- Assists non-governmental organizations and researchers in analyzing and improving budget policies and decision-making processes, particularly in the developing world.
- The International Glossary on Poverty.
- London ; New York : Zed Books, 1999.
- HC 79 .P6 I52 1999 - Lehman
- Kurian, George Thomas.
- Encyclopedia of the Third World. 4th ed.
- New York : Facts on File, 1992.
- HC 59.7 .K87 1992 - Lehman
- R910.3 K961 - Butler Reference
- The Least Developed Countries ... Report. Annual.
- New York : United Nations, 1984-
- HC 59.7 .L3219 - Latest in Lehman
- Millennium Development Goals
- Previously known as the International Development Goals, the UN General Assembly recognized the Millennium Development Goals as part of the road map for implementing the Millennium Declaration. The Goals set targets for reductions in poverty, improvements in health and education, and protection of the environment. They distill the experience of many years, expressed in the resolutions of major United Nations conferences. The goals have been adopted by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the members of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, and many other agencies. The goals measure progress from 1990 and look to what can be accomplished by 2015. The site looks at the world through 21 indicators that measure progress toward the goals.
- The Reality of Aid: an Independent Review of International Aid. Annual.
- London : Earthscan Publications Ltd., 1993-
- HC 59.8 .R43 - Lehman
- State of the World: a Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society. Annual.
- New York : Norton, c1984-
- HC 59 .S73 - Business, Lehman (Latest in Reference)
- The web version provides abstracts of each chapter for the latest edition, full text for the older editions.
- Thomas, Alan.
- Third World Atlas.
- Buckingham, U.K. : Open University Press, 1994.
- R912 T36 - Butler Reference
- G 1046 .G1 C7 1994 - Lehman
- Trade and Development Report. Annual.
- New York : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 1981-
- HD 82 .U56 - Latest in Business Reference
- WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
- The Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division of the United Nations Development Programme and the World Institute for Development Economics Research have produced this database with information on 149 countries, from 1950 to 2003.
- World Economic Outlook.
- Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1980-
- HC 59 .W65 - Latest in Business Reference
- World Investment Report. Annual.
- New York : United Nations, 1991-
- HG 4538 .W74 - Business
- World Survey on the Role of Women in Development. Quinquennial. 1986-
- New York : United Nations, [1986-
- HQ 1240 .W676 - Lehman
- Web versions: 1999, 2004
- Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development. Annual.
- London : Earthscan, c1998-
- HC 79 .E5 G741 - Lehman
U.S. Government & Foreign Government Agencies
Foreign aid: An Introduction to U.S. Programs and Policy, from the Congressional Research Service, February 10, 2009
- Agency for International Development (USAID)
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The U.S. Agency for International Development is an independent government agency that conducts foreign assistance and humanitarian aid to advance the political and economic interests of the United States.
- Development Experience Clearinghouse: a database that contains records for about 100,000 AID technical and program documents. Over 11,000 are available in full text.
- U.S. International Food Assistance Report. Annual.
HV 696 .F6 U85 - Lehman
Web versions:
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2006,
2002,
2006,
2007,
2008
- U.S. Government Initiatives to Build Trade-Related Capacity in Developing Countries and Transitional Economies, July 2000
HC 60 .U48435 2000a - Lehman
- An Assessment of USAID's Global Development Alliances, October 2004
- U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants and Assistance from International Organizations. Annual.
S 18.2:Ov 2/1945-[date] - U.S. Government Documents
- Working for a Sustainable World: U.S. Government Initiatives to Promote Sustainable Development, August 2002
- Canadian International Development Agency
- Statistical Report on International Assistance
- Department for International Development (UK)
- Export-Import Bank of the United States
- Ex-Im Bank's mission is to create jobs through exports. It provides guarantees of working capital loans for U.S. exporters, and it guarantees the repayment of loans or makes loans to foreign purchasers of U.S. goods and services. While Ex-Im Bank is not a foreign aid or development agency, its programs often help U.S. exporters participate in development projects. Ex-Im Bank has co-financed projects with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and regional development banks.
- Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
- FAS is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that represents the diverse interests of U.S. farmers and the food and agricultural sector abroad. It also collects, analyzes, and disseminates information about global supply and demand, trade trends, and emerging market opportunities. FAS seeks improved market access for U.S. products and implements programs designed to build new markets and to maintain the competitive position of U.S. products in the global marketplace. FAS also carries out food aid and market-related technical assistance programs, as well as operates a variety of Congressionally mandated import and export programs.
- GTZ: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
- Annual Report
- As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned GTZ supports the German Government in achieving its development-policy objectives. It provides viable, forwardlooking solutions for political, economic, ecological and social development in a globalised world. Working under difficult conditions, GTZ promotes complex reforms and change processes. Its corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis.
- Peace Corps
- U.S. Trade and Development Agency
- Annual Report
- The U.S. Trade and Development Agency assists in the creation of jobs for Americans by helping U.S. companies pursue overseas business opportunities. Through the funding of feasibility studies, orientation visits, specialized training grants, business workshops, and various forms of technical assistance, we help American businesses compete for infrastructure and industrial projects in middle-income and developing countries.
Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
- African Development Bank
Publications:
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- African Development Report. Semiannual
HC 800 .A1 A355 - Business
- Economic Report on Africa. Annual. 1996-
HC 800 .A1 A354 - Latest in Business Reference
- Asian Development Bank
Publications:
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- Asian Development Outlook. Annual. 1989-
HC 411 .A76 - Latest in Business Reference
- Asian Development Review. Quarterly.
Serials A - Business
- Caribbean Development Bank
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Financing the economic transition in central and eastern Europe and the CIS.
Publications:
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- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): Sustainable Development Dimensions
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- Inter-American Development Bank
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- International Labour Organization (ILO)
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- International Labour Review. Monthly.
Geneva, International Labour Office, 1921-
Current Issues - Serials I - Business
MICROFLM FN 1536 - Business
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- The role of the IMF is to promote international monetary cooperation, to facilitate the expansion and balanced growth of international trade, and to promote stability in foreign exchange. The IMF has no authority over the domestic economic policies of its members.
- See The Role of the IMF for more detailed information.
- Debt Relief Under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative
- The IMF and the World Bank have designed a framework to provide special assistance for heavily indebted poor countries that pursue IMF- and World Bank-supported adjustment and reform programs, but for whom traditional debt relief mechanisms are insufficient.
- Debt Relief for Poor Countries Faces Challenges: a review of the IMF/World Bank program by the U.S. General Accounting Office, June 2000
- Market Access for Developing Countries' Exports, April 21, 2001
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IMF Publications:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- OECD is charged with promoting policies designed to: achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus contribute to the development of the world economy; contribute to sound economic expansion in Member as well as non-Member countries in the process of economic development; and contribute to the expansion of world trade on a multilateral, non-discriminatory basis in accordance with international obligations.
- SourceOECD
SourceOECD contains the full text of all OECD publications, 1998-present.
- Organization of American States (OAS)
- South Centre
- The South Centre has grown out of the work and experience of the South Commission and its follow-up office, and from recognition of the need for enhanced South-South co-operation. It is intended to meet the need for analysis of development problems and experience, as well as to provide intellectual and policy support required by developing countries for collective and individual action in the international arena.
- United Nations
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- Economic and Social Development: organizes links to UN development activities by subject
- World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 1995
- Social Summit +5, Geneva, 2000
- World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2002
- United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
- United Nations Conference on Trade & Development
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- GlobStat
- GlobStat provides time series for data on subjects tackled by UNCTAD such as trade, investment, external finance, commodities and manufactures, together with relevant facts about population.
- The Least Developed, Land-Locked and Island Developing Countries
- The Third UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Brussels, 14 - 20 May 2001
- UNCTAD Digital Library
- United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
- The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) promotes the economic and political empowerment of women in developing countries. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice.
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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UNDP's mission is to help countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable human development by assisting them to build their capacity to design and carry out development programmes in poverty eradication, employment creation and sustainable livelihoods, the empowerment of women and the protection and regeneration of the environment, giving first priority to poverty eradication. UNDP, at the request of governments and in support of its areas of focus, assists in building capacity for good governance, popular participation, private and public sector development and growth with equity, stressing that national plans and priorities constitute the only viable frame of reference for the national programming of operational activities for development within the United Nations system.
- Corruption & Integrity Improvement Initiatives in Developing Countries
- Human Development Report
- Office of Development Studies
- UNDP Poverty Report: Overcoming Human Poverty
- United Nations Development Update
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
- UNIDO's vision: To improve the living conditions of people and promote global prosperity through offering tailor-made solutions for the sustainable industrial development of developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
- UNRISD is an autonomous agency engaging in multi-disciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Its mandate is to study the relationship between social and economic development. This takes the form of multi-country research.
- United Nations Scholars' Workstation, Yale University
- United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Canada
- Home page for conference in Cairo, Egypt (September 1994)
- World Bank
- The World Bank Group consists of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). IBRD is the main lending arm of the World Bank. IDA is the World Bank affiliate that lends on concessional terms to the poorest countries. IFC finances private sector projects and advises businesses and governments on investment issues. MIGA promotes foreign direct investment through guarantees, policy advice, and promotional services.
- PovertyNet
- Global Development Gateway, is designed as a portal for resources and tools on development issues, enabling those in the field to "share information, easily communicate, and build communities of practice around significant development challenges from the grassroots up."
- Regions and Countries
- Topics in Development: Agriculture, Economics & Trade, Environment, Finance & Private Sector Development, Human Resources & Poverty, Operations, and Research
- Trade & Development Centre: a joint venture of the World Bank and the World Trade Organization
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Publications:
The World Bank e-Library contains full text of all of the publications below, and many others.
- Annual Review of Development Effectiveness.
Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1998-
HG 3881.5 .W57 E932 - Business Reference
- Financial Flows and the Developing Countries. Quarterly.
Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1993-1997.
HG 3891 .F56 - Business
- Global Development Finance. Annual.
Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1997-
HG 4517 .I58 - Business
CD-ROM HJ8899 .W673 - Electronic Data Service
Formerly World Debt Tables (Business - HG 4517 .I58, 1975-1996). The most detailed data available on debt in developing countries. A comprehensive presentation of data and a review of developments on external debt of and financial flows to developing countries.
- Global Poverty Report
A report from the G8 Okinawa Summit examines the roles which the World Bank, IMF, and Multilateral Development Banks play in fighting poverty, July 2000.
- Beyond Transition Newsletter
A newsletter analyzing economic and social developments in transition countries, and reporting on related research, books, working papers, conferences, and articles.
- Trends in Developing Economies. Annual.
Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1989-1996.
HC 59.7 .T739 - Business
Trends in Developing Economies (TIDE) provides brief reports on most of the World Bank's borrowing countries. This compendium of individual country economic trends complements the World Bank's World Development Report, which looks at major global and regional economic trends and their implications for the future prospects of the developing economies. TIDE digests information from national sources and adds staff commentary to explain recent developments for the benefits of readers who are familiar with macroeconomics but not, perhaps, with every country under review.
- World Bank Annual Report.
Washington, D.C. : The Bank, 1981-
HG 3881 .W555 - Business1996
- World Bank Periodicals: all full text!
- World Development Indicators. Annual.
Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 1997-
HC 59.15 .W656 - Business, Lehman (Latest in Reference in both locations)
Formerly Social Indicators of Development (HC 59.69 .S63 - Business, Lehman, 1988-1996). World Development Indicators features 600 indicators in 80 statistical tables, organized in six sections: overview, people, environment, economy, states and markets, and global links. It provides an expanded view of development for 148 economies and key indicators for 61 more, small economies.
- World Development Indicators on CD-ROM. Annual.
Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 1997-
HC 59.69 .W683 - Electronic Data Service
The CD-ROM version serves as the World Bank's premier statistical product. It contains time-series data (mostly 1970 through the previous year) for nearly 400 of the indicators presented in the WDI print version, plus 100 additional indicators formerly included in the World Tables (HC 59 .W669 - Business, Lehman, 1976-1996). Also replaces the World*Data CD-ROM (HC 59.69 .W675 - Electronic Data Service, 1994-1995).
- World Development Report. Annual.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1978-
HC 59.7 .W659 - Business, Lehman
Each issue of World Development Report has a different theme. Each also contains selected World Development Indicators.
- World Development Sources
World Development Sources contains citations to over 6,000 reports. These reports include Project appraisal reports, Economic and Sector Works, Evaluation reports and Studies,and working papers.
- World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva
- The objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health, as defined in the WHO Constitution, is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
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Publications:
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- The WTO, the successor to GATT, is the only international body dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, the legal ground-rules for international commerce and for trade policy. The agreements have three main objectives: to help trade flow as freely as possible, to achieve further liberalization gradually through negotiation, and to set up an impartial means of settling disputes.
- Annual Report.
- HF 1379 .W6 - Business Reference
Non-Governmental Organizations
- CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
- Academy for Educational Development (AED)
- The Academy for Educational Development is an independent, nonprofit service organization committed to addressing human development needs in the United States and throughout the world. Under contracts and grants, the Academy operates programs in collaboration with policy leaders; nongovernmental and community-based organizations; governmental agencies; international multilateral and bilateral funders; and schools, colleges, and universities. In partnership with its clients, the Academy seeks to meet today's social, economic, and environmental challenges through education and human resource development; to apply state-of-the-art education, training, research, technology, management, behavioral analysis, and social marketing techniques to solve problems; and to improve knowledge and skills throughout the world as the most effective means of stimulating growth, reducing poverty, and promoting democratic and humanitarian ideals.
- Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy UC, Berkeley
- The Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) is a small, interdisciplinary research project at the University of California at Berkeley. For nearly fifteen years, BRIE has worked with academics, business leaders and scholars from around the world from such wide-ranging disciplines as urban planning, political science, economics and engineering to consider the real-world interactions of technology, markets and economies and to formulate path-breaking positions that challenge conventional economic policy-making.
- The Carter Center
- The Carter Center is dedicated to resolving conflicts; promoting democracy; and fighting disease, hunger, poverty, and oppression through collaborative initiatives in the areas of democratization and development, global health, and urban revitalization. It operates programs in International Democratization & Development, Global & Domestic Health, and Urban Revitalization, in 65 countries.
- Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
- The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) is a women-focused nonprofit international organization founded in 1975. CEDPA's mission is to empower women at all levels of society to be full partners in development. CEDPA's Strategies for empowerment include building the capacities of development institutions and networks, mobilizing women's participation at the policy level, linking reproductive health services and women's empowerment, and making youth an integral part of the development agenda. All CEDPA activities are designed to advance gender equity. Working with partner nongovernmental organizations and networks in more than 37 countries, CEDPA designs, implements, monitors, and evaluates projects in family planning and reproductive health, family life education, women's participation in empowerment, youth services, and international advocacy for women and girls.
- Center for Global Development
- The Center for Global Development is dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality through policy-oriented research and active engagement on development issues with the policy community and the public. A principal focus of the Center's work will be policies of the United States and other industrial countries that affect development prospects in poor countries.
- Development Initiatives
- DI is an independent organisation concerned with poverty, aid, development cooperation and international relations. DI works on: policy analysis, dissemination of information, advocacy and government relations, NGO management, strategic planning and evaluation, and stakeholder analysis.
- Eldis: the Gateway to Development Information
- ELDIS provides an ever increasing number of descriptions and links to a variety of information sources, including online documents, organisation's WWW sites, databases, library catalogues, bibliographies, and email discussion lists, research project information, map and newspaper collections.
- Includes their Country Profiles.
- Global Development Network
- The goal of the Global Development Network (GDN) is to support and link research and policy institutes involved in the field of development.
- Institute for Development Policy and Management, from the University of Manchester
- It specializes in management and development in developing and transitional economies.
- Institute of Development Studies
- The Institute of Development Studies is a leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development. The research programmes at IDS are: Globalisation; Governance; Knowledge, Technology and Society; Participation, Power and Social Change; and Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction.
- International Development Exchange (IDEX)
- IDEX was founded in 1985 to support community based development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and to offer U.S. citizens an avenue for international understanding and action. IDEX serves as a bridge, linking international communities undertaking small-scale development projects with supportive partners, or sponsors, in the U.S.
- The International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada
- Through funding of scientific research in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) helps communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic and environmental problems.
- International Institute for Environment and Development
- IIED is an independent, non-profit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination. It works to address global issues, for example; mining, the paper industry and food systems.
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- Provides Linkages: a Multimedia Resource for Environment & Development Policy Makers
- Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK
- IDS is a leading centre for research and teaching on international development. Its research interests include globalisation, sustainable livelihoods, social sector reform, and public policy for poverty reform, among others.
- Internet Center for Corruption Research
- Overseas Development Institute, London, UK
- The Overseas Development Institute is an independent non-governmental centre for development research and a forum for discussion of the problems facing developing countries. The research programme is oriented towards improving policies and their implementation both within developing countries and at the British, European Union and international level.
- Open Society Institute: Economic and Business Development Program
- In an effort to help build viable market economies and create new jobs, the Economic and Business Development Program (EBDP) assists Soros foundations in their work to promote the restructuring of transitional economies. EBDP serves as a catalyst for economic development, playing a crucial role in several areas—particularly microfinance, small business development, targeted economic policy initiatives, retraining of unemployed and laid-off military personnel, and entrepreneurship education.
- The Population Council
- The Population Council is a nonprofit, nongovernmental research organization established in 1952. Its New York headquarters supports a global network of regional and country offices. The Council seeks to improve the wellbeing and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world, and to help achieve a humane, equitable and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council analyzes population issues and trends; conducts biomedical research to develop new contraceptives; works with public and private agencies to improve the quality and outreach of family planning and reproductive health services; helps governments to influence demographic behavior; communicates the results of research in the population field to appropriate audiences; and helps build research capacities in developing countries.
- Population Reference Bureau
- PRB is dedicated to providing timely,objective information on U.S. and international population trends. We inform policymakers, educators, the media, and concerned citizens working in the public interest about the demographic trends that shape our world. PRB is a nonprofit, nonadvocacy organization.
- Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University
- The Population Research Institute provides an organizational setting for interdisciplinary population research and training. The institute includes more than forty faculty associates and fifty graduate students from eleven different departments in the social and agricultural sciences and in health-related fields.
- Transparency International
- "We work to ensure that the agendas of international organisations give high priority to curbing corruption. We are promoting new inter-governmental agreements to fight corruption in an internationally co-ordinated manner. Both the TI Secretariat and TI National Chapters around the world actively monitor the implementation of such agreements by the signatory countries. This includes monitoring of Conventions concluded within the framework of the OECD, the Council of Europe, the European Union and the Organisation of American States. Special emphasis is on monitoring the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials."
- Corruption Surveys and Indexes, from Transparency International
- Global Corruption Report
- World Economic Forum
- Global Competitiveness Report. Annual.
Geneva : World Economic Forum, c1996-
HF 1414 .G572 - Business
- World Neighbors
- World Neighbors is a US-based non-profit organization working at the forefront of worldwide efforts to eliminate hunger, disease and poverty in Asia, Latin America and Africa. It encourages community leadership and self-help in rural communities though 89 programs in food security, community health, and family planning.
- Worldwatch Institute
- Worldwatch is a nonprofit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems.
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