Sites for sore eyes

Globalisation is the focus of a vast number of websites. For starters, take a look at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) White Paper on International Development, ‘Eliminating World Poverty - Making Globalisation Work for the Poor’ and the accompanying background papers. The DFID-funded Globalisation and Poverty Research Programme at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), of which most of the research reported in this issue forms a part, has information on all the projects funded by the programme.

A number of international organisations have a particular interest in globalisation, employment and poverty as central concerns. At www.unctad-undp.org the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) present their partnership, the Global Programme for Globalization, Liberalization and Sustainable Human Development. See also the UNDP’s Human Development Reports, especially ‘Globalisation with a Human Face’.

The World Bank’s site on globalisation, growth and poverty and their site on labour and employment are informative. Also visit the International Labour Organization’s World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization.

Academic institutions working on globalisation issues include the Overseas Development Group and the School of Development Studies (University of East Anglia). The British Library for Development Studies at IDS (BLDS) is a large repository of information.

Other useful sites are the UNDP Poverty Report 2000, the Poverty Reduction Learning Network and PovertyNet.

For sites aimed at debate, campaigns and civil action, see Third World Network, Global Policy Forum, CorpWatch (globalisation and trade), and the poverty and labour sections of OneWorld, a debate forum. openDemocracy discusses globalisation and the World Development Movement debates poverty. Also worth viewing are Oxfam’s Make Trade Fair campaign and the Bretton Woods Project which monitors the activities of the World Bank and the IMF.

Lise Maren Lereim Sand
School of Development Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
UK

T +44 (0)1603 456161

L.Sand@uea.ac.uk

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