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There are plenty of information sources on the web; the difficulty is to find those which contain balanced or, if ever possible, unbiased information. There are scores of good books too. A first point of entry is our News section - for daily updated news on social issues - poverty, children, disaster relief, health, human rights, environment, aid & trade. See the "related links" beside for our hand-picked favorites. Eldis Gateway to Development Information The aim of their very comprehensive resource guides is to bring together information from their databases and to present it for quick access - from Aid to health to human rights to environment. Each of the guides is oversee by an editor or editorial team. For a larger set of links to useful websites, visit del.icio.us on poverty, disaster relief, environment, human rights In terms of books, the following is a preliminary list The Post Development Reader - a compilation of intelligently argued essays on development from vernacular to vehicles to paradigms to practices to what next - Majid Rahnema is the editor (ISBN 1 85649 473 X)
The Development
Dictionary
- edited by Wolfgang Sachs (anything he writes is brilliant in my humble
opinion) - it is not so much a traditional dictionary as a guide to commonly used
terms of development - like the book above, comes from an alternative
perspective, a perspective which questions the so-called success of
development and the
War and Hunger - Rethinking International Responses to Complex Emergencies - Edited by Johanna McRae and Anthony Zwi, with Mark Duffield and Hogo Slim (all of these are names that will rapidly become familiar if you choose to pursue this area) - I suggest this book as it talks about the realities that many of the communities we work with face prior to our working with them - and it does a good job of unveiling the traps international NGOs fall in to in trying to address situations that are beyond institutional understanding from a traditional Western perspective (ISBN# 1 85649 291 5)
Famine Crimes - Politics and the
Disaster Relief Industry in Africa by Alex de Waal
- another leading thinker - again, a hard look at the benefits of well
meaning international NGO
The Graves Are Not Yet
Full -
Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa by Bill Berkeley - Bill is a journalist
that takes a look at current situations in Africa and challenges that
conflicts are based in tribal hatreds, is more about tyranny supported by the
West - he looks at specific Shaking hands
with the devil -
on The End of Poverty, by Jeffrey Sachs World on Fire, by Amy Chua Globalization and its Discontents, by Joseph Stiglitz Development as Freedom, by Amartya Sen There are also
many country-specific books. See our picture section, especially regarding Please contact us with more information sources to add here. |
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