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Chapter 22 World Development
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United
Nations Development Programme home page:
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A huge site, with masses of information.
The Focus Areas section is a good place to start – with sections on
poverty, gender and environment; there is also an excellent and extensive
News section (which includes an archive).
http://www.undp.org/ |
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UN Economic and
Social Development links page:
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This is
an alphabetical subject index, linking you to the websites of UN programmes
and agencies relating to ecomomic and social development topics.
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/ |
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The World Bank
Group home page:
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"Our
dream is a world free of poverty". Sadly, this enormous site
makes it only too clear how much more there is to do to realise this
simple dream. Check out the site map for an overview: data is available
by region and country, by topic and sector; the research section,
the publications section (many downloadable) and the schools section
are huge and full of interesting and useful material.
http://www.worldbank.org/ |
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Canadian International
Development Agency,Virtual Library on International Development
main page:
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A collection of links to international development resources on the
internet, arranged by topics, countries, regions and organisations,
plus a miscellany of sites under the heading 'Development Reference
Desk’ (includes statistical sources).
http://w3.acdi-cida.gc.ca/virtual.nsf |
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World Health
Organization home page:
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Another
seriously large site. The 'Health topics' section is organised by
disease; the Reports section includes the excellent annual series
of WHO World Health Reports and other downloadable documents; 'Information
sources' enables access to documents, research reports, press releases,
fact sheets, etc. For recent items in any category, 'What’s new' –
e.g. for recent fact sheets and press releases.
http://www.who.int/ |
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