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NEW IN THIS 2006 EDITION of the Directory of Development Organizations (April, 2006): Create your own personal directory of development organizations. All files are now enabled for adding pointers and comments to the directory. Learn more, by clicking "My Directory" or visit http://www.devdir.org/ .

The directory of development organizations, listing 47,500 development organizations, has been prepared to facilitate international cooperation and knowledge sharing in development work, both among civil society organizations, research institutions, governments and the private sector.

The directory aims to promote interaction and active partnerships among governments, private sector and key development organizations in civil society, including NGOs, trade unions, faith-based organizations, indigenous peoples movements, foundations and research centers. In creating opportunities for dialogue with governments and private sector, civil society organizations are helping to amplify the voices of the poorest people in the decisions that affect their lives, improve development effectiveness and sustainability and hold governments and policymakers publicly accountable.

In particular, the directory is intended to provide a comprehensive source of reference for development practitioners, researchers, donor employees, and policymakers who are committed to good governance, sustainable development and poverty reduction, through: the financial sector and micro-finance, trade and business development services, rural development and appropriate technology, private sector development and policy reforms, legislation & rule of law and good governance, community development and social protection, gender equality and participation, environment and health, research, training and education.

As part of the collective effort to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, the Year of Micro-credit provided an opportunity for the international community to raise awareness about the importance of micro-finance in eradicating poverty, and to enhance existing programs that support sustainable, inclusive financial sectors worldwide. In essence, micro-finance offers each day the possibility and hope to many poor people of improving - through their own efforts - their household economic welfare and well-being and enterprise stability and growth. Therefore, in this 2006 edition, micro-finance actors and practitioner organizations have been marked by, integrating micro-finance support institutions and their enabling environment into one directory.

This Seventh Edition will give you thousands of useful sites where you can find the statistics, reports, regulations, best practices and other key information. This timesaving tool includes a country finder index and annotates each organization by category, so you'll know from the start whether an organization is worth visiting. Its Internet resources will point you in the direction of the best development resources available in each country on the World Wide Web today.

For easier referencing, the directory has been divided into 6 geographical sections: Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania.

For each of the regions contacts have been annotated by the following 9 categories: (1) international organizations; (2) government institutions; (3) private sector support organizations (including fair trade); (4) finance institutions; (5) training and research centers; (6) civil society organizations; (7) development consulting firms (including references to job opportunities and vacancy announcements); (8) information providers (development newsletters/journals); and, (9) grant-makers.

The directory can be used by researchers, consultants and other development practitioners searching for up-to-date institutional information for a particular country; by trainers using the directories as a reference tool for their training programs; by organizations trying to identify possible project partners; by individuals seeking possible employers; by funders seeking grantees; by grantees seeking funders; or by organizations aiming at identifying institutions, agencies and programs dedicated to providing resources, products and services to their members.

UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2002 (www.unctad.org/en/docs//tdstat27_enfr.pdf) (439 pp.)
UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2002 provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of world trade, investment and development, for individual countries and for economic and trade groupings. Data are presented in an analytical way, through the use of rank orderings, growth rates and other special calculations, with a view to facilitate their interpretation. The Handbook is a valuable tool for research, policy-making and education, which can also be used in conjunction with the CD-ROM or the on-line version. The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2002 offers to users reliable coherent data on the following subjects: International merchandise trade: values, trends and regional trade zones; Trade in services; Export and import structure by products and by regions of origin and destination, and related concentration indices; Volume and terms of trade indices; Commodity prices and relevant price indices; International financial data: current accounts, foreign direct investment, external indebtedness, workers' remittances, etc.; Selected indicators of development: GDP and various social and telecommunications indicators; In addition to the traditional broad coverage of development statistics, the 2002 edition offers several new data sets: Export/ import concentration indices by product; Diversification and structural change in trade indices; Instability indices of prices of primary commodities; Environment protection and tourism indicators. (This information is also in Section (3-B) - Private Capital Flows.)

Branko Milanovic, "The Two Faces of Globalization: Against Globalization As We Know It"
http://www.developmentgateway.org/content/item-detail?item_id=257838&version_id=148674
This paper by Branko Milanovic, a World Bank economist, attempts to show that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is seriously flawed. The record of the last two decades (1978-1998) is shown to be uniformly worse than that of the ...10/12/02
See URL = www.worldbank.org/research/inequality/pdf/naiveglob1.pdf

The book Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz (02S2) (winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics) is among the most talked-about books in the field today (02H2).

World Investment Report 2003 -- FDI Policies for Development: National and International Perspectives

Recognized worldwide as the most up-to-date and comprehensive source of information as well as analysis regarding foreign direct investments, the World Investment Report (WIR) highlights the major sectoral and geographical changes in the pattern of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows every year, with special attention being paid to developing countries. This year's report focuses on the FDI downturn, its reasons and the role of national policies and international investment agreements (IIAs) to attract FDI and benefit from it. The report includes a substantial statistical annex.
CONTENTS
PART I. FDI FALLS AGAIN - UNEVENLY ~
Chapter 1: FDI Down 21% Globally
Chapter 2: Uneven Performance Across Regions
PART II. ENHANCING THE DEVELOPMENT DIMENSION OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS ~
Chapter 3: Key National FDI Policies and International Investment Agreements
Chapter 4: Eight Key Issues: National Experiences and International Approaches
Chapter 5: The Importance of National Policy Space
Chapter 6: Home Countries and Investors

ISBN: 9211125804 319 pp. $49.00
www.un.org/Pubs/whatsnew/e03wir.htm (visited 7/21/04)

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Thea Lee - economist with Economic Policy Institute (anti-NAFTA) (12/7/95).
Owen Bieber - President, United Auto Workers of America, Washington DC (10/93).
Jeff Faux - president of the Economic Policy Institute (Generally anti-NAFTA, 1993).
Global Trade Watch - a program of Public Citizen (a consumer group founded by Ralph Nader) annual budget: $435,000 and a half-dozen overworked activists. Headed by Lori Wallach (Bob Davis, Wall Street Journal (4/6/98)).

Thea Lee is Assistant director of the AFL-CIO's International Economics Department.

The Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, a unit of the Communications Workers of America was created exclusively to fight overseas job migration.

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