ELDIS DEVELOPMENT REPORTER
No 16, November 2001
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Here is our selection of the latest services and documents added
to ELDIS, the gateway to information on development. All
documents are available free on the Internet (or you can try our
email-only option).
NEW SERVICES
New resources supported by the ELDIS team
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Afghanistan Briefing - Special Resource Centre looking at
humanitarian, economic and political effects of the current Afghan
situation since the September 11th attack on the World Trade
Centre and the Pentagon.
Aspects covered include:
* Strategies for humanitarian intervention
* International relations
* Globalisation and asymmetry
* Refugee plight and policy
* Impacts on the global economy and on funding for development
* Post-conflict reconstruction
* Exploration of fundamentalism and pluralism
* Central Asia - is there a crisis coming?
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/questioning/afghan.htm
OUR EDITOR'S SELECTION FROM DOCUMENTS 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. World Development Report 2002
2. The impact of HIV/AIDS on adult mortality in South Africa
3. World Economic Outlook
4. Guiding principles for biodiversity in development
5. Long-term global demographic trends: reshaping the geopolitical
landscape
6. Economic development in Africa: performances, prospects and
policy issues
7. World Investment Report 2001: Promoting linkages
8. Bridging research and policy
9. Gender mainstreaming: learning and information packs
10. Guidelines for impact monitoring in economic and employment
promotion projects
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. World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for
markets.
World Bank, 2001
Building effective institutions is the key to ensuring robust and
successful market reforms
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/rc/wb.htm
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2. The impact of HIV/AIDS on adult mortality in South Africa
Medical Research Council, South Africa (MRC), Burden of Disease
Unit, 2001
Demographic implications of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/mrc.htm
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3. World Economic Outlook
International Monetary Fund (IMF) October 2001
Latest IMF economic projections in light of World Trade Centre
attack
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/weo.htm
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4. Guiding principles for biodiversity in development: lessons from
field projects
IUCN; DFID; European Union / World Commission on Protected
Areas (WCPA)
(2001)
Experience with biodiversity in cooperation projects
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/guidebio.htm
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5. Long-term global demographic trends: reshaping the geopolitical
landscape
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), USA, 2001
Consequences of demographic trends for the key elements of
national power within the larger global community
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/age/index.htm
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6. Economic development in Africa: performances, prospects and
policy issues
UNCTAD, 2001
Priorities for development and research
http://www.ids.ac.uk/poverty/unctad.htm
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7. World Investment Report 2001: Promoting linkages
United Nations (UN) Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD), 2001
Linkages between foreign affiliates of multinational enterprises and
local companies in developing countries
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wir.htm
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8. Bridging research and policy
Stone, D; Maxwell, S.; Keating, M.
Bridging Research and Policy: workshop and research project 2001
Critical examination of the current thinking on the research to
policy process
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/policymaking/index.htm
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9. Gender mainstreaming: learning and information packs
Gender in Development Programme (GIDP), UNDP, 2001
Taking account of gender concerns in all policy, programme,
administrative, financial activities and organisational procedures
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/gidp.htm
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10. Guidelines for impact monitoring in economic and employment
promotion projects with special reference to poverty reduction
impacts
Vahlhaus, M; Kuby, T.
Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ),
2001
Manual on participatory monitoring of employment-creation
projects
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/poverty/index.htm
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See the complete list of new additions on our "What's new" page
at:
http://www.eldis.org
Don't forget to look at our Notepad service, containing items of
news, job adverts, conference details, etc.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/notepad/index.htm
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