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- PRAXIS: Resources For Social and Economic Development
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Welcome to PRAXIS, the international development homepage of Prof. Richard J. Estes of the University of Pennsylvania. PRAXIS provides access to a vast array of archival resources on international and comparative social development. The intellectual commitment of PRAXIS is to the promotion of positive social change through informed action. Thus, PRAXIS has been designed to meet the informational needs of two audiences: 1. social work educators and students with international interests; and, 2. other educators and students who require assistance in locating useful national and international resources on social and economic development.
http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/~restes/praxis.html
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- Wikipedia Encyclopedia
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Wikipedia is a multilingual, open content, collaboratively developed encyclopedia (with supporting almanac-like and gazetteer-like information) that is managed and operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. As of September 2003, it covers a wide range of subjects and has 160,000 articles in English (by its own count). It also has over 150,000 articles in other languages. It covers many different topics.
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- OneWorld U.S. Resource Library
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OneWorld U.S. Resource Library http://us.oneworld.net/section/us/resourcelibrary Get information on the issues and regions you care about directly from the organizations working in the field. Find out about discussion lists, email newsletters and updates, magazines and print newsletters available from environmental, health, human rights and international development organizations in the U.S.
http://us.oneworld.net/section/us/resourcelibrary
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- University of Waikato Digital Library Project
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This web site provides several document collections, including historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines. All are available over the Web, and can be accessed through searching and browsing interfaces provided by the Greenstone digital library software. A huge collection providing gigabytes of information.
http://www.sadl.uleth.ca/nz/cgi-bin/library
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- Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Fulltext Studies
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The APEC database is an essential research resource for libraries maintaining a collection on current Asian affairs. The database consists of important studies APEC conducts on many facets of Asian economies - finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, education and women's studies. It includes many industry specific APEC studies - Internet, technology, telecommunications, fisheries, and tourism to name a very few. All important content from the APEC studies is now available - including the fulltext, statistical tables, color graphs - even satellite photographs.
http://www.asia-studies.com/apec.html
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- Logical Fallacies
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A large collection of fallacies and explanations about them. Useful for developing critical thinking skills.
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/
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- DataCenter
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DataCenter exists to build the capacity of a broad-based social justice movement that embodies, embraces, and honors diverse cultures to create the new systems and institutions essential to building a just and equitable world. For the social justice movement to have an impact, community voices and action must be informed. The DataCenter's mission is to provide social justice advocates, especially the poor and people of color, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills that will help them conduct more effective campaigns.
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- The Humanity Libraries Project
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The Humanity Libraries Project of the Human Info NGO is a network project of more than 100 partners. Its aim is to provide universal free or low-cost information access through co-operation between UN Agencies, Universities and NGO.
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- The Centre for Global Development - Working Papers
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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. This section of their web-site provides access to their working papers concerning a number of development issues and topics.
http://www.cgdev.org/Publications/?Type=Working%20Paper
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- WordNet
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An online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets. WordNet was developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University under the direction of Professor George A. Miller (Principal Investigator).
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
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- Overseas Development Institute Publications Catalogue
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ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Our mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries. We do this by locking together high-quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused dissemination and debate. We work with partners in the public and private sectors, in both developing and developed countries. The ODI's themes-based Publications Catalogue provides access to a number of downloadable resources.
http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/index.html
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- The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
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The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library was inaugurated December 1988 on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The principal focus of the Human Rights Library is to help train effective human rights professionals and volunteers. The Human Rights Library assists human rights advocates, monitors, students, and educators.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/index.html
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- Digital South Asia Library
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A project funded by the Association of Research Libraries' Global Resources Program with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Digital South Asia Library provides: reference resources, bibliographies and union lists, images, indexes, maps, books and journals, statistics, and other internet resources relating to the south asia region.
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- World Trade Organisation Bibliography Database
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The present bibliography has been prepared by the Secretariat to provide a selected sample of studies on subjects related to the WTO. It includes articles, books and working papers published between 1995 and 2002. The bibliography principally contains economic references, but some legal references also appear. The bibliography is divided into several categories and an outline is provided for each of them.
http://forms.wto.org/eradbibliographie/bibliography_search_e.htm
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- USAID: Development Experience Clearing House
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The Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) is the largest online resource for USAID funded, international development documentation. The purpose of the DEC is to strengthen USAID's development projects, activities, and programs by making these development experience documents available to USAID offices and mission staff, PVO's, NGO's, universities and research institutions, developing countries, and the public worldwide.
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- World Bank - Data & Statistics
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Almost all the data reported in this site are derived, either directly or indirectly, from official statistical systems organized and financed by national governments. Includes: World Development Indicators 2002; Millennium Development Goals; Statistical Capacity Building; International Comparison Program; Global Development Finance 2002; Online Databases; Quick reference tables.
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- Centre for International Development (Harvard University): Online Data Sets Available for Downloadin
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A depository of databases providing international development information.
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/ciddata/datalinks.html
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- Overseas Development Institute - Publications List
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Working papers emerging from ODI research. covering a range of development orientated subjects. The full text of the more recent papers are in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF).
http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/working_papers/index.html
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- UNESCO Libraries Portal
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This site provides links to the websites of libraries and information centres, library associations, including IATUL and on-line resources around the world. It also provides news about upcoming conferences and training opportunities. Users can add or modify links; librarians are invited to participate by providing information on activities, news and content which they wish to share with others.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/
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- Best Practices Database
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This searchable database contains over 1600 proven solutions from more than 140 countries to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing world. It demonstrates the practical ways in which public, private and civil society sectors are working together to improve governance, eradicate poverty, provide access to shelter, land and basic services, protect the environment and support economic development. The database is a powerful tool for: Analyzing current trends and emerging issues; Networking with the people and organisations involved in implementation; Capacity-building including new knowledge management tools and methods; Technical Cooperation through the matching of supply with demand for proven expertise and experience; Policy development based on what works. The Best Practices database is a joint product of UN-HABITAT and The Together Foundation.
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- UNU/WIDER - UNDP World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
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The UNU/WIDER - UNDP World Income Inequality Database (WIID) collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries in an easily retrievable, exportable, and analyzable format. It is available on the internet for browsing and download in order to facilitate further analysis and debate on inequality.
http://www.wider.unu.edu/wiid/wiid.htm
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- UNESCO Knowledge Hub for Asia-Pacific
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Launched by UNESCO's Regional Bureau for Communication and Information in New Delhi, this site provides information on activities of UNESCO and its partners in the region. The "Knowledge Hub" promotes capacity-building and free access to information, covering a wide range of activities in the region and highlighting some of its unique features. Presently only available in English, the number of languages used is planned to be rapidly increased so as to contribute to enhancing cultural and linguistic diversity and to extending access to knowledge resources expressed in other languages used in the region.
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- International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) is an emerging coalition of organizations and activists from around the world dedicated to advancing economic, social and cultural rights. This website contains four interactive, searchable databases (or directories) of organizations and individuals, project and activities, regional and domestic case law, and events.
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- Hidden Agendas: The Films and Writings of John Pilger
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Website containing the largest online collection of Pilger's written work, his latest writings, a forum for discussions, as well as Pilger on: globalisation, Viet Nam, Burma, East Timor, Australia, Iraq, and the Media.
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- id21
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id21 is a fast-track research reporting service funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). It aims to bring UK-based development research findings and policy recommendations to policymakers and development practitioners worldwide. id21 aims to be part of the process of putting policy into practice. Online, in print and through the southern media, id21 showcases recent research findings and policy lessons on major development issues.
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