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Collection of Articles on
"Social Development" from Third World Network
 A
positive agenda for developing countries: issues for future
trade negotiations
Publication forthcoming by the UNCTAD Secretariat,
Unedited Version, February 2000
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UNCTAD
and the Development Dimensions of the Evolving World Economy: A Forum for
Negotiations, Study and Analysis
by Gamani Corea
A
Better World for All: Progress Towards the International
Development Goals
In
a first-ever joint report by the UN, the OECD, the World
Bank and the IMF, the world's four principal development
institutions assess progress
towards poverty reduction goals and agree on a common
vision for the way forward. The goals for international
development address that most
compelling of human desires-a world free of poverty and
free of the misery that poverty breeds. This report
focuses on seven goals, which, if achieved in the next
15 years, will improve the lives of millions of people.
In words and pictures, with numbers and charts, it
describes progress towards the goals, what has been
achieved and the effort required to reach them. [Read
more]
Can
Africa Claim the 21st Century_
A
new study jointly written by the African Development
Bank, the African
Economic Research Consortium, the Global Coalition on
Africa, the United Nations Economic Commission on
Africa, and the World Bank -- "Can Africa Claim the
21st Century_" -- says that while war and discord
have renewed doubts about Africa's future, a more
complex and encouraging reality is also unfolding.
In countries that have made key economic reforms, such
as Mozambique and Ghana, growth and personal incomes
have risen and poverty has been reduced.
The press release and to a summary of "Can Africa
Claim the 21st Century_" is available here.
Order
the report.
UNDP'S
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2000
 UNDP's Human
Development Report 2000, looks at human rights
as an essential part of development-and at development
as a means to realizing human rights. The report
illustrates how human rights bring principles of
accountability and social justice to the process of
human development, and concludes that the advances in
the 21st century will be won by confronting entrenched
economic and political interests.
Online Discussions:
Social
Capital and Community-Driven Development
Policy
Research Report on Gender and Development
The Sphere Project
In July 1997, the Sphere Project was launched by a
group of humanitarian agencies. This project sought to develop a set of
universal minimum standards in core areas (water supply &
sanitation, nutrition, food aid, shelter & site planning and health
services) of humanitarian assistance. The aim of the Project is to
improve the quality of assistance provided to people affected by
disasters, and to enhance the accountability of the humanitarian system
in disaster response.
World
Bank World Development Indicators (WDI)
 The
latest World Bank annual statistical portrait of people
and the state of the world, the World Development Indicators
2000 (WDI) has just been published and is available on line.
One fact from the report: in 1998 a sixth of the world's
population, primarily the people of North America, Europe,
and Japan, received nearly 80 percent of world income, an
average of $70 per day. At the same time, 57 percent of
the world's population, living in the 63 poorest countries,
received only 6 percent of world income, an average of less
than $2 per day.
J.
Oloka-Onyango
THE
REALIZATION OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
Human rights as the primary objective of
international
trade, investment and finance policy and practice
Science
and technology for development (A/C.2/54/L.4)
South
Summit in Havana to mark a "Turning Point" for developing
countries
Aid
& the Least Developed Countries:
Who Needs Aid in the Era of Globalisation_
Rubens Ricupero,
Secretary-General, United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Human Development: The Highest Priority for
Global Aid
Dr Richard Jolly, Special
Adviser to the Administrator, UNDP
Must the Poor Be Always With Us_
By Sir Shridath Ramphal,
Co-Chairman, Commission on Global Governance
PUBLIC
ACTION TO REMEDY HUNGER
Amartya Sen
6 Myths and Facts about Hunger
Towards Global Sustainability
Speech by James D. Wolfensohn,
President, The World Bank,
to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the Environment, New York, June 25, 1997.
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World
Bank Draft World Development Report 2000
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Food
as an htmlect of global violence
Some eat too
little, some too much - and it wouldn't cost much to change the sorry
state of world food affairs.
Development
in the Arab World and the Role of the Arab Non-Governmental Organizations
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ESSAYS
ON FOOD, NUTRITION, HEALTH CARE AND DEVELOPMENT
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