Human needs, poverty & development
Country rankings by various development indicators here and here
Watch development happen on exciting scatter graphs (honestly!) gapminder
World maps of various indicators (you will have to register for this site): maps.maplecroft.com/
A detailed site about poverty: povlinks
Chronic Poverty Research Centre: www.chronicpoverty.org
Poverty mapped worldwide: maps.grida.no
Causes of poverty: www.globalissues.org
What’s poverty in the UK? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7481927.stm
Where do you fit on the Global Rich List? http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Globalisation & Trade
Huge user-friendly site about economic development - The Commanding Heights: www.pbs.org
Globalisation the basics: news.bbc.co.uk
What is globalisation? news.bbc.co.uk
Listen to a lecture "Is the world really shrinking?"
Globalisation on the radio: www.bbc.co.uk
Global environmental, social and economic change: earthtrends.wri.org .
Globalisation in the car industry: news.bbc.co.uk
Globalisation of waste: environment.guardian.co.uk
Outsaucing - HP Sauce moves away from Birmingham: www.brownsauce.org
Global sourcing of pencils (way back in 1958!) www.econlib.org
Workers’ rights in the global economy: www.nlcnet.org
The production chain for a pair of jeans: www.tes.co.uk and
www.geographypages.co.uk
How much does the UK depend on the rest of the world? www.neweconomics.org .
India & China - profiles of the emerging economic giants: news.bbc.co.uk
Infochange India: www.infochangeindia.org
Hear about China's economic miracle (this is an MP3 sound file): china.mp3.
Video diaries from Chinese and Indian workers: bbc.co.uk
Multinationals and India’s service revolution: news.bbc.co.uk
BBC Radio journey to the 'beating heart of China's economic boom': worldtoday/news
IPod manufacture in China: www.mailonsunday.co.uk
Do transnational corporations operate like this? mcdonalds_game.htm
Simsweatshop www.simsweatshop.com
The true cost of coffee: news.bbc.co.uk
Starbucks, Ethiopia and coffee: www.guardian.co.uk
Multinationals and India’s service revolution: news.bbc.co.uk
Introduction to world trade issues: www.globaleye.org.uk .
Open University resources about the WTO and LEDCs: openlearn.open.ac.uk
Current world trade issues: news.bbc.co.uk .
What is free trade? www.oxfam.org.uk (thanks to Jamie Smith for this link)
Export industries in Kenya: www.epzakenya.com
Trade and development links here , here and here .
Bananas and fair trade in the Windward Islands.
St Lucia saved by fair-trade bananas? environment.guardian.co.uk
Detailed assessment of fair trade in bananas from Ghana: www.nri.org
Fair trade versus free trade: www.nfu.org, www.samuelbrittan.co.uk, www.onpointradio.org,
www.foodanddrinkeurope.com and www.sierraclub.org
Fair trade and the credit crunch
Open University resources about labour and trade issues between Mexico and the USA: openlearn.open.ac.uk
LLEDCs, LEDCs. HIPCs and all that
The Millenium Development Goals at: www.un.org .
How committed are MEDCs to aiding development? www.cgdev.org
Haiti: the BBC Country Profile (don't forget to use the links to news articles on the righthand side); Lonely PlanetTravel Guide; US Department of State travel warning about Haiti; World Health Organisation about Haiti; HaitiAction.
Africa in facts and figures: www.learningafrica.org.uk
African case studies on a variety of development issues: www.learningafrica.org.uk
Sustainable Africa: allafrica.com
Virtual Zambia here .
Real life in Ghana: www.plan-ed.org
Katine village here
Visit a Ugandan village: www.plan-uk.org
Play the 'game' of life in Darfur: www.darfurisdying.com
Virtual Bangladesh: www.virtualbangladesh.com .
Causes and impacts of famine here, here , here and here .
Food security statistics: www.fao.org
The looming food crisis: www.guardian.co.uk
The Green & Gene Revolutions: www.guardian.co.uk , news.bbc.co.uk , www.globaleye.org.uk ,www.whybiotech.com , www.rediff.com , www.foodfirst.org , www.fao.org, www.agbioworld.org ,www.globalchange.umich.edu , livingheritage.org and www.gvnr.com
Africa's food crisis: news.bbc.co.uk.
Oxfam small farmers in Zimbabwe: zimbabwe/nutritional_gardens.htm
International Organisations
What is the International Monetary Fund? www.imf.org
World Bank views on development issues: worldbank.org .
WTO BBC Newsround World Trade Organisation.
G8 BBC Newsround the G8.
Aid
Aid and development links:
www.globaleye.org.uk , www.makepovertyhistory.org , www.bized.ac.uk and www.guardian.co.uk .
How much do governments give in aid? www.globalissues.org
Are aid levels falling? business.guardian.co.uk
What does Wateraid do? www.wateraid.org
Oxfam briefing on food aid: www.oxfam.org
British government Department for International Development on debt reduction
Debt and development links www.makepovertyhistory.org
