General
Theme 1: Development, Resources and Global Citizenship
Theme 2: Poverty and Inequality
Theme 3: Perspective of Development
Theme 4. Economic Development
Theme 5: Political Development
Theme 6: Social Development

GENERAL

• World development bibliography
• What is development?
• Glossary
• Oxfam - comprehensive web site
• Red Cross Guide to working in the developing world - (especially Ch9 on hazards)
• Atlas of Global Development
• Resources on Economics
• Keynes .v. Hayek
• Glossary
• Guardian's Global development website
• The daily mail moral underground
• Hungry for Justice: How the World Food System Fails the Poor
• Cadbury Skills Space
• Foreign Policy magazine
• Save The Children: homepage | Downloadable resources
• Search engine on South Asia
• The Guardian
• Policy and Research briefing papers
• ODI Annual report 07
• General Reading: The Brandt report 

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Theme 1: Development, Resources and Global Citizenship

1. There are basic human needs and these have an impact on resource utilisation.
• Pakistan floods and basic needs
• Solutions to pollution in Bangkok
• Environmental issues in Bangkok
  
  
2. There are limits to environmental tolerance which affect the availability of resources.
   
   
• Population pressure The Guardian September 23, 2011


3. The responsible use of resources for development involves sustainable development.
   
• Mali land grab
• Solar power BBC A History of the World in 100 objects
• oil and gas in Ecuador and Peru


4. There are competing claims and views on the use and management of natural resources.


• Instruction for taking part in discussion
• Oil Ecuador Yasuni NP
• Roles for the Yasuni discussion
• oil and gas in Ecuador and Peru
• Features & Opinions
• E.g.  Tanzania – biofuels – jatropha plants
• Providing the basic need of water


5. Different types of environments and agencies require different approaches to sustainable development.
• Solutions to pollution in Bangkok
• Sustainable development in mountain and cold regions
• Sustainable development in urban areas
• Sustainable Planet Forum in Lyons and further details

Theme 2: Poverty and Inequality

• Poverty
• Economics - The luckiest nut in the world - film

1. Poverty can be defined in different ways.
• Policy and Research briefing papers
• Causes of poverty
• Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
• Happy Planet
• The 2006 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index
• Environmental vulnerability index
• Voices of the poor - vulnerability
• Measuring vulnerability (GDA: p57)
• Defining poverty : bbc | Eldis
• Gini coefficient
• Graph for UK: visualeconomics | statistics.gov.uk
2. Poverty and inequality can be measured in a variety of ways.
• Measuring development
• Water Poverty Index
• Measurement of poverty
• HDI country data for 2004
• Health Poverty Index
• Human Poverty Index
• Human Suffering Index
• How will we feed the world
• Measuring poverty and inequality
• Measuring poverty and inequality
• Pakistan floods and basic needs
• Tanzania without Poverty - a plain language guide to Tanzania's PRSP
• Migration and development - Some useful sections eg p 18. And very readable. Also for the geographers some great material and disasters and 2004 Tsunami too.
• Japan's changing demography
• How to deal with falling population
• Causes of Poverty in the UK: childreninwales | poverty.org.uk
• Tackling poverty in London
• Example – tackling poverty in South Africa:
  earthtrends | chronicpoverty.org
• Addressing poverty in Tanzania
• Use of different types of aid to reduce poverty:
  • Types of aid
  • Aid to Bangladesh 
  • i)  multilateral: Kandle | irinnews
  • Poverty and development in Kenya:
    netpublikationer | aercafrica
  • ii) bilateral
  • iii) emergency
  • Emergency aid from US to Somalia


3. Poverty is created and addressed in many  different ways.
• Impact of international debt on poverty and basic needs
• Impact of Debt relief on Tanzania
• Impact of debt relief – the IMF view. Gives data for each HIPC country


4. Particular social groups experience inequality.
• Global Development
• Life stories | "Survival is a human right"
• Inequality data UK – census data and reports (GDA: p299-239)



5. Attitudes and values affect people’s response to poverty and inequality.
• Make Poverty History 2005 Evaluation - http://www.firetail.co.uk/MPH_2005_Evaluation.pdf
• Make Poverty History Evaluation - PowerPoint
• Shop local, ethical, and at the best price!
• Very imaginative way to support the World Food Programme
• Participatory Development as New Paradigm: The Transition of Development Professionalism
• Global Monitoring Report 2011 on the MDGs
• MDG links:   bbc.co.uk | mdgs.un.org
• US business
• MTV Staying Alive
• Roll Back Malaria
• International campaign to Ban Landmines
• Commission for Africa summary
• Critique
• Critique

 

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Theme 3: Perspective of Development

1. Development is a contested concept which is evolving over time.
   
   
2. A critique of interpretations of ‘development’ helps us to understand current thinking.
• Radio Features: Bangladesh: Reduced to beggars by land dispute
  (GDA: ch 11)



3. The concept of development varies between different groups of people with different values and attitudes.
   
   
4. Development can be understood from economic, political, social and environmental perspectives.
• Development flow diagram
• Independent article " A new Dawn for Cuba as capitalism eclipses communism"
• Russell King, Richard Black, Michael Collyer, Anthony Fielding and Ronald Skeldon
  
  
5. International initiatives may raise awareness of, and can create a momentum for, action on development issues.
• HDI 2003 report highlights the development crisis
• Millennium goals: a new approach to aid and development
• A call for rich countries to act on poverty
• HDR 2003: Explaining the Millennium Goals
  
  
6. The concept and definition of ‘sustainable development’ is a contested one.

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Theme 4. Economic Development

1. Inequalities in economic development exist at global, national and local scales.
• ODI South-South trade
• CDI - Some interesting comparative graphs and country reports.
• Independent article " A new Dawn for Cuba as capitalism eclipses communism"
• Impact of International money 
  
  
2. There are a variety of approaches and attitudes towards trade.
• Oxfam: Making Trade Fair
• Trade and poverty in Vietnam
• Trade and poverty in Zambia
• One route to development: Tourism and agriculture on Botswana
• ODI cotton trade
• Terms of trade
• A new approach to trade for agriculture
• Farm Africa : Kenya
• Trade and the WTO
  
• Observer article - Kenyan fury at threat to organic trade
• Peanut video
• Russell King, Richard Black, Michael Collyer, Anthony Fielding and Ronald Skeldon
  
  
3. There are a variety of approaches to, and impacts of, aid.
• Farm Africa reaching for the poor
• Farm Africa tackling the symptoms
• Bridging the gap between development and relief
• Case studies of ways to bridge the gap between disaster relief and development
• Impact of FDI in Tanzania 
  
  
4. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has an impact on economic development.
   
• Mali land grab
  
  
5. International debt has a impact on development
• IMF factsheet – assessing the vulnerability of a country to debt, poverty etc
  
• Solar Power BBC A History of the World in 100 objects
• ICT in Kenya 
  
  
6. Globalisation affects economic development.
• Global food : local food
• Personal tales of globalisation (BBC)
  
• The Luckiest Nut in the World
• Topic Eye: Health & Development
• C4 news
• The aid debate   
• Effectiveness of aid in Kenya
  

Theme 5: Political Development

• Most hated companies - article

1. World governance structures affect levels and rates of development.
• IMF factsheet - lending money
• IMF factsheet - how IMF support for countries is established
• Trade and the WTO
• The cost of war
  
  
2. Empowerment of all groups in society is fundamental for development.
   
   
3. Political participation is an integral part of development.
   
• IMF factsheet - good governance
  
  
4. Development is affected by conflicts and the resolution of those conflicts.
• World development Report 2011: Conflict, Security and Development



5. National and regional governments have an important role in the development process.
   
• Mali land grab
• C4 news
  
  
6. National and local political initiatives can play an important role in some aspects of the global development process.
• Who does the developing?

Theme 6: Social Development

• Survival International - Here is an excellent report ' Progress can Kill - about health issues and remote tribes. From Survival International.

1. There are complex relationships between population and resources which affects development.
   
• World counters
• World clock
• Perspectives of development: Post development, a review


2. Women have a significant role to play in development.
• Women and development
• Sources of articles on aspects of women and development
• Article: A critique of women’s groups
• Inequality and Why It Matters
• Gender and Biodiversity: A New Approach to Linking Environment and Development
• Breaking barriers: Women in a man's world
• Population growth in Zambia’s slums 
• Schoolgirl mothers in Tanzania


3. The education of a population is integral to its sustainable development.
• Global Monitoring Report 2011
• Schoolgirl mothers in Tanzania



4. The health of a population is integral to its sustainable development.
   
• Reuters support for journalists on humanitarian emergencies. Good for GI5 too
  
• Observer article - Malaria trial and error
• Red Cross Guide to working in the developing world
• David Molyneux: raising the profile of neglected tropical
  disease
• Topic Eye: Health & Development
  
  
5. Cultural and religious diversity is part of development.
• HDR 2004 The case for cultural liberty
  
  
6. Migration reflects inequalities in levels of development.
• Migration and development - Some useful sections eg p 18. And very readable. Also for the geographers some great material and disasters and 2004 Tsunami too.
• The Atlas of Human Migration: Global Patterns of People on the Move
• Comment | A snapshot of life
  
  

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