ELDIS DEVELOPMENT REPORTER
No 8, May 2000
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Here is our selection of the latest additions to ELDIS, the gateway
to information on development. All documents are available free
on the Internet (or you can try our email-only option).
OUR EDITOR'S SELECTION FROM ITEMS ADDED THIS MONTH
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Full Internet access details below. Each item includes links to
further Internet materials on the same subject.
1. Large dams and their alternatives in East & South East Asia:
experiences and lessons learned
2. How health workers earn a living in China
3. Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict?
4. Environment and trade: a handbook
5. Unorthodox microfinance: the seven doctrines of success
6. Growth is good for the poor
7. UNDP Poverty Report 2000: overcoming human poverty
8. Review of experience with evaluation in the IMF
9. European policy to support rural development in developing
countries
10. Pro-poor tourism: putting poverty at the heart of the tourism
agenda
11. Poverty impacts of globalization
12. Engendering Development: World Bank draft policy
13. WSSD +5
14. DFID Online Consultation on Information, Technology and
Knowledge for Development
The links below lead onto the documents. You can also receive
these documents by email: see the end of this message for full
instructions on how to use this.
ACCESS DETAILS:
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1. Large Dams and their Alternatives in East & South East Asia:
Experiences and Lessons Learned
World Commission on Dams, WCD (2000)
Papers from conference in Vietnam, including case studies, on the
socio-economic impact of dam building
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/dams.htm
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2. How health workers earn a living in China
Bloom, G.; Leiya Han; Xiang Li
Institute of Development Studies, IDS (2000)
Why workers are resorting to informal methods of earning an
income
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/hwork.htm
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3. Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict?
Easterly, W.
World Bank: Economics Growth Research (2000)
Argues that in countries with sufficiently good institutions, ethnic
diversity does not lower growth or worsen economic policies
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/east.htm
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4. Environment and trade: a handbook
UNEP, IISD, 2000
Understanding how trade can affect the environment, for better and
for worse
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/envtr.htm
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5. Unorthodox microfinance: the seven doctrines of success
Richardson, D.C. In: Microbanking Bulletin (2000)
Offers seven principles for achieving poverty alleviation targets
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/unmic.htm
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6. Growth is good for the Poor
Dollar, D.; Kraay, A.
Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 2000
Argues that only policy-induced growth is as good for the poor:
democratic institutions or public spending on health and education
have no systematic impact on poverty
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/gpoor.htm
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7. UNDP Poverty Report 2000: Overcoming Human Poverty
Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
Annual report on key poverty targets
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/undppov.htm
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8. Review of Experience with Evaluation in the Fund
International Monetary Fund (IMF) (2000)
How evaluation can assist the Fund to carry out its mandate and
responsibilities
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/imfeval.htm
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9. European Policy to Support Rural Development in Developing
Countries
Aide à la Décision Économique (ADE); Overseas Development
Institute (ODI); Qwentès. 2000
Reviews policy objectives and strategies to produce a new vision
for the European Commission's development cooperation
programme
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/eupol.htm
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10. Pro-poor tourism: putting poverty at the heart of the tourism
agenda
Ashley, C.; Boyd, C.; Goodwin. H.
Overseas Development Institute, 2000
How tourism affects the livelihoods of the poor and how positive
impacts can be enhanced.
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/povtour.htm
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11. Poverty impacts of Globalization: two papers
(a) Globalization: Threat or Opportunity?
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2000
(b) Is Globalisation all it is cracked up to be?
Kaplinsky, R.
Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK 1999
Two papers providing contrasting opinions of the effects of
globalisation
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/glob.htm
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12. Engendering Development
Development Research Group and Poverty Reduction and
Economic Management Network, The World Bank
Draft report demonstrating the value of applying a gender
perspective to the design of development policies.
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/prr.htm
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ORGANISATIONS
13. World Summit for Social Development 2000/ WSSD +5
Forum for review of the Summit
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wssd.htm
14. Online Consultation on Information, Technology and
Knowledge for Development UK Department for International
Development (DFID), 2000
Forum Web site with papers and background details
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/dfidc.htm
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