Chapter 16 Web Links

Chapter sixteen: Development

http://www.cgdev.org/
The Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, covers all aspects of development, including foreign aid and its effectiveness.

http://www.eldis.org
Very easy-to-use site, with downloadable research papers, reports, and many links to other sites.

http://www.ids.ac.uk/
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has large research programmes on many aspects of development.

http://www.imf.org
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) posts reports on its member countries and agreements with governments (such as ‘letters of intent’), which spell out economic reforms in detail. The IMF’s annual reports on the state of the world economy are also widely read.

http://www.odi.org.uk
The website of the Overseas Development Institute (UK), an independent think tank on development issues, which publishes briefing papers providing authoritative insight into the latest development issues.

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs
For progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

http://www.wider.unu.edu
The website of the United Nations University’s World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), the working paper series of which offers a wide range of viewpoints on economic development issues, particularly in the areas of poverty measurement and inequality.

http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty
The poverty reduction website of the World Bank discusses poverty measures and presents cases of success in reducing poverty.

http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-poverty-line-faq
World Bank, ‘FAQs: Global Poverty Line Update’.