Useful links

Many of the following links will be useful to those with an interest in Development Studies. Please note that a links page such as this will never be complete - don't hesitate to let us know if there is a site you think should be here.

General development studies links

1. International Development Studies Network
2. Center for the Advanced Study of International Development (CASID)
3. Coombsweb Extensive Social Sciences Resources (Australian National University)
4. National Center for Development Studies - Online Publications (ANU)
5. Institute of Development Studies (Bath)
6. Institute of Development Studies (Sussex)
7. Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade (University of Texas)
8. International Development Research Centre
9. SOSIG Social Sciences Information Gateway
10. Eldis Gateway to Development Information
11. Information on overseas volunteer work (International Study and Travel Center)
12. Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
13. For those of you who like to browse websites, you might be interested in looking at the AID/WATCH site which 'monitors the spending of Australian aid dollars'...
14. Development Studies Association
15. Development Studies Network
16. Comprehensive Directory of Development Organisations
17. ACFID (Australian Council for International Development)

International political institutions

1. The United Nations
2. United Nations Department for Policy Coordination and Development
3. The World Bank
4. International Monetary Fund
5. Food and Agriculture Organisation
6. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
7. Inter-American Development Bank
8. USAID United States Agency for International Development
9. AusAID Australian Agency for International Development

Social and demographic indicators

1. World Bank - Social Indicators of Development
2. World Bank - Trends in Developing Economies
3. World Bank - World Tables
4. Migration News (summarises the most important immigration and integration developments during the preceding month)
5. Economic Growth Resources
6. The Progress of Nations Homepage (countries of the world ranked according to the well-being of their peoples)

Non-governmental organisations

1. Oxfam Home Page
2. Amnesty International
3. Australian Red Cross Web Site
4. Center for International Private Enterprise

Asia

1. UCI Southeast Asian Archive
2. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
3. Asia Source

African studies

1. Guide to African resources on the internet (published by the Norwegian Council for Africa)
2. African Development Studies resources (Stanford University)
3. African National Congress
4. Inkatha Freedom Party
5. South African Communist Party

Human rights

1. Amnesty International
2. Privacy International

Environment/sustainable development

1. EcoNet Homepage
2. The Schumacher Society
3. Greenpeace International Homepage
4. Sustainable Earth Electronic Library
5. Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) (a general development info source with some environment related material)
6. International Institute for Sustainable Development
7. The World Wide Web Virtual Library - Sustainable Development
8. United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development
9. Johannesburg Summit 2002
10. Earth Council
11. Sustainability Web Ring
12. Linkages

Gender studies

1. Women online worldwide (an interactive site that includes news, chat areas, etc)
2. Women's Health interactive
3. FeMiNa
4. Library Resources for Women's Studies (US)
5. Women's Gopher Menu
6. Gender-Related Electronic Forums
7. Canadian Women Studies Online (University of Toronto)
8. Russian Feminism Resources
9. Activist and Feminist Resources
10. Women's and Gender Studies Resources (Louisiana State University)
11. Women's Studies (from Library of Congress)
12. WomensNet (@igc)
13. BRIDGE development and gender
14. Womens Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO)
15. Siyanda (WEDO)

Newspapers

1. The Australian Online
2. The Melbourne Age (Australia)
3. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
4. Green Left Weekly (Australia)
5. The Hindu (India)
6. Business Times (Singapore)
7. Kompas (Indonesia)
8. The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
9. The Korea Herald
10. The Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
11. The Japan Times
12. India World
13. Business Line (Madras)
14. Daily News (Sri Lanka)
15. Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka)
16. Financial Times (UK)
17. The Guardian (London)
18. The Observer (London)
19. The Telegraph (UK)
20. The Times Higher Education Supplement (UK)
21. The New York Times (US)
22. Muc-Tim (Vietnamese Student Magazine)
23. The Post (Zambia)
24. The Electronic Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
25. Online newspapers
26. OneWorld News database indexed by region
27. Lots more links to news sources including UN and US Daily International Press Releases

Journals

1. Horizons
2. Australian Journals On-Line (links to 850 on-line journals)
3. AntePodium (new on-line political science journal - Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)
4. World Bank Economic Review
5. Finance and Development
6. The Economist
7. The Journal of Finance (US)
8. Time Out (UK)
9. UTA - Center for Political and International Studies - Journals and Newspapers
10. Journal of Political Ecology
11. ACME: an International e-Journal for Critical Geographies.

Latin America

1. Virtual Institute of Carribean Studies
2. Internet Resources for Latin America

Map sites

1. Electronic map library (University of Texas)
2. Map Links
3. Yahoo Maps

Search facilities

1. Frame Search (searches up to four search engines at any one time! The results are then displayed simultaneously using frames)
2. Alta Vista (one of the largest online search engines)
3. Webcrawler (created by the WebCrawler robot, a software program that gathers and indexes URLs as it surfs the Web)
4. Lycos (a search engine combined with a robot. From Carnegie-Mellon University)
5. Go.com Net Search
6. Excite from Architext (this facility lets you search among 1.4 million Web pages or hundreds of Usenet newsgroups)
7. The Internet Sleuth (allows you to run searches on hundreds of Internet directories )
8. MetaCrawler (a comprehensive hotlist of Web resources)
9. SavvySearch (promoted as "the premiere Parallel Internet Query Engine")
10. search.com (over 250 ways to search the Net combined in one site)
11. The Source of Searches (index to over twenty of the best URL databases on the Web)

Newsgroups related to Development Studies

You need a newsgroup reader or a browser capable of reading newsgroups to access these. They can be a very valuable source of up to date information on your topic.

1. misc.activism.progressive
2. soc.culture (and under individiual countries, i.e. soc.culture.indonesia)