New information sources in development/environment (Eldis)

Peter Ferguson (mailto:P.Ferguson@SUSSEX.AC.UK)
Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:40:34 +0000 

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Date:         Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:40:34 +0000
From: Peter Ferguson <mailto:P.Ferguson@SUSSEX.AC.UK>
Subject:      New information sources in development/environment (Eldis)
To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU


ELDIS NEWS
No 1: February 1997


ELDIS is a WWW gateway to information sources on development and
related environmental issues. Below is a list of recent
additions to the Eldis WWW directory of information sources (which
currently lists some 2000 major sources and 800 full text items).
Full descriptions of these new sources and URLs are available
through our What's New page:


      http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.html


News on the project follows the highlights section below.




* New insitutional-level records for:
        o Brookings Institution
        o Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche
         agronomique pour le Developppement (CIRAD)
        o Commodity Price Data (Pink Sheet) / Commodity Markets and
          the Developing Economies, World Bank
        o Competency-based Economies through Formation for Enterprise
          (CEFE)
        o Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research
           in Africa (CODESRIA)
        o Disaster Situation Reports
        o Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (IMF)
        o Ethical Investors Group
        o Global Jobserve / United Nations Job Newsletter
        o Human Rights Internet (HRI)
        o Index on Censorship
        o Information for Development Program (Infodev)
        o International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
        o International Development Conference (IDC), 1997
        o International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC)
        o Joint IMF / World Bank Library / Intlec CDRom
        o Land Quality Indicators (LQI) Project
        o Latin America News
        o Microcredit Summit
        o Minority Rights Group (MRG)
        o Monitoring Environmental Progress, World Bank
        o New Internationalist (NI)
        o NGO Cafe
        o North South Centre, Council of Europe / European Centre for
          Global Interdependence and Solidarity
        o South African Studies CDRom, NISC
        o South African Training and Capacity Building Providers
       Database
        o State Library of South Africa
        o Union of International Associations (UIA)




* Highlights: we are now adding direct links to pages within
  WWW/gopher  sites, mostly to full text documents.


        o Microcredit Summit declaration
        o Microcredit Summit preparatory meeting
        o Microcredit interest rates (CGAP occasional paper)
        o Financial sustainability, targeting the poorest and income
          impact: are there trade offf for micro-finance
         institutions?   (CGAP)
        o Regulation and supervision of micro-finance institutions:
          stabilizing a new financial market (CGAP)
        o Missing links: financial systems that work for the majority
          (CGAP)
        o Maximising the outreach of microenterprise fincance: the
          emerging
          lessons of successful programs (CGAP)
        o List of agencies working with microcredit
        o List of publications on microcredit
        o Credit where it's due: Microcredit Summit (Interaction)
        o Cyber-course on micro-banking for low income groups in
        developing   countries
        o Directory of micocredit programmes worldwide
        o Malaysia economic and financial statistics sources (IMF
         DSBB)
       o Argentina economic and financial statistics sources (IMF
        DSBB)
        o Thailand economic and financial statistics sources (IMF
       DSBB)
        o Mexico economic and financial statistics sources
       (IMF DSBB)
        o Philippines economic and financial statistics sources (IMF
      DSBB)
       o South Africa economic and financial statistics sources (IMF
       DSBB)
        o The 1996 Indian general election (RIIA)
        o Economic regionalism in Tajikistan (RIIA)
        o Habari Newsletter (CAS)
        o Grants for Africanist studies (CAS)
        o Brainstorm Newsletter (CEFE)
        o Understanding entrepreneurship and how to promote it (CEFE)
        o Training [entreprenuers] for success (CEFE)
        o Sun, wind, water, earth, air: the energy revolution (New
          Internationalist)
        o Field of dreams: life in a refugee settlement (New
          Internationalist)
        o Wonded nations, broken lives: censorship in transition
        societies:   South Africa, Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe,
       Latin America (Index on  Censorship)
        o Women: the body politic: women and censorship (Index on
          Censorship)
        o Latest censorship news stories (Index on Censorship)
        o Common Path Newsletter (Commonwealth Foundation)
        o Non-governmental organisations: guidelines for good policy
        and  practice (Commonwealth Foundation)
        o Statistics on numbers of international organizations (UIA)
        o Types of international organization: clasiffication issues
       (UIA)
        o Practical options in using the potential of international
        NGO  networks (UIA)
        o Interacting fruitfully with un-civil society: the dilemma
        for non  civil society organizations (UIA)
        o Disaster situation reports (Reliefweb)
        o Can we save the forest while using the trees? (WB)
        o What do we know about biodiversity (WB)
        o How can we monitor air and water ? (WB)
        o Are we using resources efficiently? (WB)
        o What role do taxes and subsidies play (in environmental
       policy)?  (WB)
        o Are we sharing the burden of reducing climate risks? (WB)
        o Are we saving enough for the future? (WB)
        o Where is the wealth of nations? (WB)
        o How have the poor fared? environment and indicators (WB)
        o Distribtion corrected GNP statistics, rankings and Gini
          coefficients (WB)
        o Greenhouse gas emission statistics: Carbon Dioxide, Methane
          and   CFC
        o Tax and subsidy rate statistics on energy: fossil fuels,
          electricity (WB)
        o Consumption of minerals and metals statistics (WB)
        o Suspended particulate matter generation statistics (WB)
        o Tax and subsidy rate statistics on energy: fossil fuels,
          electricity (WB)
        o Ideas and Information: About Development Education (IDC
          Newsletter)
        o IDC Policy Bulletin
        o Harnessing information for development: proposal for a
       World Bank  Group strategy
        o Consequences of telecommunications trends for the
       competitiveness  of developing countries
        o International directory of energy efficiency institutions
        o Manual on financing energy efficiency projects
        o Briefing paper on energy services companies (WEEA)
        o Environmental focus on [the energy market] in Mexico
        (WEEA/USAID)
        o China and the World Trade Organization, WTO (Brookings)
        o Minimum wages and poverty in developing countries: some
        emprical  evidence (Brookings)
        o Quantifying APEC trade liberalization (Brookings)
        o Global economic prospects: medium term projections and
        structural change (Brookings)
        o Environmental policy and international trade (Brookings)
        o Economic implications of greenhouse gas policy (Brookings)
        o Mexican peso crisis: the forseeable and the surprise
        (Brookings)
        o Integrating gender into emergency responses (BRIDGE)
        o Framework for higher education transformation in South
        Africa:  Higher Eduacation Commission report
        o Promoting women in development grants (PROWID)
        o Commodity Markets and the Developing Economies (World Bank)
        o Korea's export growth: an alternative explanation
        o Trade, environment and sustainable development: literature
         review
        o Indicators of sustainable development: framework and
        strategies  (CSD)
        o Integrating environment and development in decision making
        (CSD)
        o Intergated approach to the planning and management of land
          resources (CSD)
        o Information for sustainable decision making (CSD)
        o Social assessment structured learning preliminary findings
        (WB)
        o Social assessment (WB)
        o Reflections from the Participation Sourcebook (WB)
        o Participation in agricultural extension (World Bank)
        o Micro-finance in West Africa (CGAP Newsletter 2)
        o CGAP Newsletter
        o New departures for technology policy in Brazil (GDI)
        o Governance in the post-import substitutions era:
        perspectives for  new approaches to create systemic
       competitiveness in Brazil        (GDI)
        o Strengthening technological capability in developing
        countries:  lessons from German technical cooperation
       (GDI)
        o Ecological product standards and requirements
        as a new challenge  for developing countries'
       industries and exports: the case of
       India's leather, textile and refrigeration industries (GDI)
        o Facilitating sustainable agricultural development in
       Zimbabwe:          key factors and necessary incentives (GDI)
        o Reintegrating former combatants in Eritrea: contribution of
          development cooperation (GDI)
        o Social security and poverty in Kenya: developing social
        security  systems for poverty alleviation (GDI)
        o Water and non-governmental organizations (NGOs): ODA
       Workshop  proceedings (WEDC)
        o Watsan 2000: universal access to water and sanitation by
        the year 2000 (UNICEF workshop / WEDC)
        o Reaching the unreached: challenges [water and sanitation]
        for the 21st Century (WEDC Conference)
        o Techincal support for refugees: lessons from recent
        experiences  (WEDC)
        o Sustainable sewerage (WEDC)
        o Jobs/ employment opportunities with the UN
        o Rights and responsibilities in sustainable development:
        IISD bibliography
        o Sustainability and security: IISD bibliography
        o Trade and sustainable development: IISD bibliography
        o Developing Ideas Digest (IISD)
        o Linkages Journal (IISD)




   * The full-text of an IDS/GEC report of Poverty and the
environment in  developing countries has been added. This is the
first step in what we hope will be a model for the
presentation of a research project (using the IDS Environmental
Entitlements Programme).


   * The outline of possible Eldis Phase 2 activities has been
updated.


   * Additional records for development research centres in the UK
have   been added to the section on UK development infrastructure.
We hope to develop this infrastructure section further (and
with more detail on research projects) in partnership with the new
IDS programme to disseminate ODA-sponsored research results.


   * Search interface to ELDIS: the new search interface seems to be
working, except for some of the extended search facilities. It
searches an Eldis record, returns a list of both record titles and
highlights, and displays records on a one-record-per-page basis.
We   are currently looking at software to improve this, and to
provide an  interface which would allow (if selected) a simultaneous
search
of the BLDS/IDS Library catalogue.


   * Finance: DANIDA has awarded the BLDS 300,000 UK sterling over
the next three years for ELDIS development. Starting in September
1996 we
will receive 100,000 UK sterling each year. DANIDA has given the
money  based on a project proposal worked out at the BLDS. We have
employed two people to work full time on this: Peter Ferguson and
Tracy
Zussman.




   * Training materials:. We have added a page used at IDS for
Internet/Eldis training sessions: we will continue to add links to
this, and any suggestions are welcome. This is in addition to our
more
structured work-book called Keying into development: a guide to using
the Internet and other electronic resources for development studies.
It was written as part of a research-skills course at CDE/IDS and is,
therefore, biased towards technologies available on the University of
Sussex campus has been updated. But we hope that it will also be
of wider interest.


   * Library additions: we have added more lists of recent additions
to the British Library for Development Studies in the subject areas
of
development aid and participation. You can search the BLDS catalogue
directly for these, but we though these might be useful in this
pre-prepared format. Any comments on the usefuleness of this?




If you have any questions please contact:




Tracy Zussman
Eldis Project
British Library for Development Studies
at Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9RE
UK


Email: mailto:blds.eldis@sussex.ac.uk
Tel:  01273 606261  Fax: 01273 621202
Eldis home page: http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/eldis.html