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Eldis Country Profiles

Quick-links guide to country level information: news, statistics, organisations and sectoral information.

http://www.eldis.org/country/index.htm

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Environment & Urbanization

This twice-yearly journal provides researchers, NGO staff and professionals in Africa, Asia and Latin America with the chance to write about their work, present their ideas and debate on issues. It promotes the work of French, Spanish and Portuguese-speaking authors by arranging for the translation of their work into English. It is one of the few journals on Africa, Asia and Latin America where a majority of the authors come from these regions. Now in its 13th year of publication, it is one of the most widely read and distributed journals in its field. Each issue has a special theme.

http://www.iied.org/human/eandu/eandu_submit.html

(Added: Thu Jun 21 2001   Modified: Tue Jun 06 2006   Hits: 632)

Institute for Policy Studies

The Institute for Policy Studies turns Ideas into Action for Peace, Justice and the Environment. As Washington's first progressive multi-issue "think tank," IPS has served as a policy and research resource for visionary social justice movements for four decades.

http://www.ips-dc.org/

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International Financial Institutions Latin American Monitor

This initiative aims to contribute to the Latin American and global IFI campaigns for reform of the Bretton Woods institutions by posting a wide variety of reports and articles.

http://ifis.choike.org/

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Latin America Research Review

Latin America Research Review is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean. LARR is the official publication of the Latin American Studies Association.

http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/journals/jlarr.html

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Latin American Perspectives

Latin American Perspectives is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. Most issues focus on a single problem, nation, or region, providing an in-depth look from participants and scholars throughout the Americas.

http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200875

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Latinamerica Press

Latinamerica Press has been publishing independent news, analysis and information materials since 1969. Based in Lima, Peru, we are in a good position to be able to offer, together with our region-wide network of journalists, a local perspective on regional news for a global audience. As an alternative source of information we cover the kind of angles and people that you won't find everyday in the mainstream media. Much of the content of this website is for subscribers, although we do publish free features and articles on the homepage and under each theme. We are a non profit organisation that relies on the income from subscriptions and the sale of other materials to survive.

http://www.lapress.org/

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Latinamerica Press .

Latinamerica Press is a fortnightly journal of information and analysis about events across Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on human rights (political, economic, social and cultural) within the region.

http://www.latinamericapress.org/Article.asp?lanCode=1

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Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbooks Program

The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/

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NACLA News

The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) has just launched an online news source on Latin America. After forty years of publishing the NACLA Report on the Americas bi-monthly magazine, NACLA has expanded its excellent coverage to include an web-based source for news on Latin America.

http://news.nacla.org/

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One World

The full range of OneWorld content from its partner network, in 12 languages and organised by eight main topics (with 80 sub-topics) and by country/region... use as your library, resource or just browse.

http://www.oneworld.net/section/indepth

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Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD)

OxLAD contains statistical series for more than forty economic and social indicators over the whole twentieth century, covering twenty countries in the region. It is designed as a resource for economic and social historians worldwide, and is freely accessible from the Oxford University website. It is the only source that brings together publicly available data for 1900-2000 from a wide range of official publications and presents them on a consistent basis.

http://oxlad.qeh.ox.ac.uk/

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The Narco News Bulletin

This online news portal reports on the United States' "war on drugs" and movements opposing that country's operations in Latin America.

http://www.narconews.com/

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Third World Quarterly

A leading journal of scholarship and policy in the field of international studies. Third World Quarterly examines the issues that affect the many Third Worlds. TWQ provides an alternative and over-arching reflective analysis of micro-economic and grass-root efforts of development practitioners and planners. TWQ links the academic terrains of the various contemporary area studies - Africa, Asia, Latin American and the Middle East.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/01436597.html

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Upside Down World

Upside Down World is an online magazine uncovering activism and politics in Latin America. It provides concerned global citizens with independent reporting on Latin American social movements and governments that have refused to prostrate themselves to the interests of corporate globalization, and instead have focused their work on addressing the needs of the people. While corporate media often distorts or overlooks this progressive, regional trend, they seek to provide an alternative resource for information about the achievements and challenges of these people-powered movements.

http://upsidedownworld.org/

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Weekly News Updates on the Americas

The Weekly News Update on the Americas is a timely, concise news summary covering events throughout Latin American and the Caribbean. It is available 52 weeks a year, plus intermittent supplements, by e-mail or snail mail. Also has good links to media resources on the Americas.

http://home.earthlink.net/~nicadlw/wnuhome.html

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Windows on Haiti

The latest news on Haiti

http://www.haitiforever.com/index.html

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