| African
Economic Research Consortium |
The
Consortium supports locally based researchers
to conduct policy-relevant economic inquiry.
The website hosts available research articles
in the areas of poverty, income distribution
and labour market issues; as well as articles
on how the policies of the World Bank-IMF-WTO
combine will affect African nations. |
| www.aercafrica.org |
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| Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives |
| The
Centre specialises in the production of
research reports, opinion pieces, fact-sheets
and other publications that offer an alternative
viewpoint to social and economic justice
issues from a Canadian point of view,
and sometimes from a global perspective.
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| www.policyalternatives.ca |
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| CorpWatch |
CorpWatch
works to support anti-corporate globalization
movements around the world. It provides
information on transnational corporations
to movements opposed to the forces of
globalization. It also educates and mobilizes
key constituencies in the US and other
countries to take action in support of
campaigns against globalization worldwide.
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| www.corpwatch.org |
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| Corporate
Watch |
The
site believes in blowing the whistle on
corporate misdeeds and cover-ups. A voice
of the anti-corporate globalisation movements,
there are sections on news, profiles,
features, new research and campaigns.
Those interested in keeping watch on corporations
in India can visit www.corpwatchindia.org |
| www.corporatewatch.org.uk |
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| ECLAC |
ECLAC
is one of the five regional commissions
of the UN. It is committed to a greater
integration of Latin American and Caribbean
economies with world markets but advocates
a stable system of international governance
for managing capital flows. The website
is a good place to look for secondary
data on economic and social trends in
the region. |
| www.eclac.org |
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| EURODAD |
A network
of NGOs spread over sixteen European countries,
which actively campaigns for the incorporation
of poverty considerations in debt reduction
policies such as the Heavily Indebted
Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, to achieve
" sustainable" levels of debt.
The website hosts worldwide debt data,
debt updates, debt projections as well
as critical analyses on debt-related issues. |
| www.eurodad.org |
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| Focus
on the Global South |
Focus
on the Global South is a group of scholar-activists
committed to the generation of ideas and
information resources contextualising
local movements of change in the Asia-Pacific
region within the global North/South divide.
The website has terrific resources on
anti-globalization initiatives in the
region. |
| www.focusweb.org |
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| International
Trade Center |
| This website is jointly maintained
by WTO and UNCTAD and provides wide ranging
trade related data on product and country
basis. It also provides data on Trade Performance
Index (TPI) which shows sectoral export
performance and competitiveness of countries.
Data on trade simulation are also available
for some countries. |
| www.intracen.org |
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| OECD |
The
official website of the Organization for
Economic Co-operation & Development.
The website's statistics portal is a good
place to surf for data on key economic
variables at different levels of aggregation.
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| www.oecd.org/oecddirect |
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| IDEAs |
IDEAs
or International Development Economics
Associates is a pluralist network of progressive
economists across the world. It seeks
to undertake and promote a range of activities
including research, teaching, dissemination
and application of critical analyses of
economic policy and development. IDEAs
is motivated by the need to strengthen
and develop alternatives to the current
mainstream economic paradigm as formulated
by the neo-liberal orthodoxy, which has
failed to achieve sustainable, equitable
and participatory growth.
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| www.networkideas.org |
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| Third
World Network |
The
Third World Network is an independent
non-profit international network of organisations
and individuals involved in issues relating
to development, the Third World and North-South
issues. |
| www.twnside.org.sg |
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| UNCTAD
Trade Analysis and Information System (TRAINS)
Database |
This
database, maintained by UNCTAD, provides
Trade Control Measures (Tariff, para-tariff
and Non-Tariff Measures) information at
tariff line level for 119 countries. It
also covers imports by suppliers at 6-digit
level of the International Convention
on the Harmonized Commodity Description
and Coding System (HS) covering more than
85% of the world trade. This database
is one of the most comprehensive database
on Non-Tariff Measures currently available. |
| www.unctad.org/trains |
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| UNRISD |
The
official website of the United Nations
Institute for Social Development, an autonomous
UN agency engaged in multidisciplinary
research on the social dimensions of economic
development. Available on the website
are quality research papers on issues
of pressing importance to development
economists such as the links between racism
and public policy. |
| www.unrisd.org/engindex/research/rethink.htm |