New Development Resources
Social Science Research Council Making Sense of Darfur (Blog)
Chronic Poverty Research Centre Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09: Escaping Poverty Traps (July 8, 2008)
Christian Aid Fighting food shortages: Hungry for change (July 2008; press release)
IMF Food and Fuel Prices—Recent Developments, Macroeconomic Impact, and Policy Responses (June 30,2008; Press release). Ongoing news from the IMF: Responding to the Food and Fuel Price Surge.
Julie Flint & Alex de Waal Darfur: A New History of a Long War (Zed books, May 21, 2008, Second Edition)
Capgemini and Merrill Lynch 2008 World Wealth Report (June 27, 2008; more on the report from CapGemini)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies World Disasters Report 2008 - Focus on HIV and AIDS (Launched June 25, 2008). Press release and resources from the Irish Red Cross.
Transparency International Global Corruption Report 2008: Corruption in the water sector (Press release, media kit, full report, press coverage; Launched June 25, 2008).
Oxfam Another Inconvenient Truth: How biofuel policies are deepening poverty and accelerating climate change (June 18, 2008). Press release.
Duncan Green, Oxfam From Poverty to Power (June 23, 2008).
Action for Global Health Healthy Aid report (June 18, 2008). Press release.
UNHCR 2007 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons (June 17, 2008, pdf, 21pp., 712Kb). Annexes (Excel tables) and hi-res pdf available for downloading here [zipped format, 4.9Mb]. Press release. June 20 was U.N. World Refugee Day.
WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF Towards Universal Access: Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector, Progress Report (Released June 2008)
Elizabeth Pisani The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS (W. W. Norton & Co, Granta Books, June 2008). See also Alan Whiteside HIV/Aids: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, January 24, 2008).
OECD Business for Development 2008: Promoting Commercial Agriculture in Africa (May, 2008)
WHO World Health Statistics 2008 (Updated May, 2008)
Dóchas Policy Coherence for Development Dóchas Statement to the Joint Oireachtas sub-Committee on Overseas Development (May 29, 2008)
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2008-2017 (May 29, 2008)
Dóchas The Lisbon Treaty and Development Dóchas Statement to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs
(May 27, 2008)
CORI Justice Briefing on the Lisbon Treaty or PDF version (May 2008)
OECD Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change (May 26, 2008)
ODI Tackling the food price crisis: five steps Blog (May 8, 2008) and Rising food prices: A global crisis Briefing Paper by Steve Wiggins and Stephanie Levy (April, 2008)
UN DESA/Blackwell Special Issue on Sustainable Development in Africa Natural Resources Forum 32:2 (May, 2008)
ODI/Blackwell Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management. Disasters is a major, peer-reviewed quarterly journal reporting on all aspects of disaster studies, policy and management. It aims to provide a forum for academics, policy-makers and practitioners. (Note: Disasters offers journalists one means of identifying experts in this field).
Dóchas Dóchas discussion paper: The EU Reform Treaty from a Development perspective (April, 2008)
Dr. David A. Hamburg Preventing Genocide: Practical Steps and Effective Action (Paradigm, April, 2008)
UNCTAD/UNDP Creative Economy Report (April 20, 2008)
EPA Climate Change Lecture Series presentations Ireland's Environmental Protection Agency has been hosting a series of lectures by significant international speakers exploring key aspects of climate change. The first two lectures in the Climate Change Lecture Series are now available as video broadcasts.
IMF World Economic Outlook: Housing and the Business Cycle (Press Briefing on the World Economic Outlook
April 9, 2008: Webcast | Transcript)
RTÉ Reporting War: Debating media coverage of the War in Iraq RTÉ journalists Fergal Keane and Joe Zefran, and Irish Times Foreign Editor Patrick Smyth debate coverage of the Iraq War with a panel at DIT in Dublin, moderated by Pepe Escobar (April 9, 2008).
Newseum Today’s Front Pages 451 front pages from 41 countries
OECD Net Official Development Assistance in 2007 (Preliminary Data, April, 2008)
Society for International Development Water for People (March, 2008). Development 51:1.
UN 2007 List of ten stories the world may wish to hear more about (Press release, March 27, 2008).
UNESCAP The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2008 (Press release, March 27, 2008).
Heidi Holland Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter who Became a Tyrant (Penguin South Africa; 250 pages; 210 rand; March 14, 2008) Economist Review.
ResearchSEA - Asia Research News is Asia’s first research news portal, a free one-stop centre where journalists and members of the public can gain access to news and local experts from the research world in Asia. Registered journalists have access to embargoed news and an Experts Database, allowing them to reach top experts for comments on the latest issues. ResearchSEA brings the latest research, events and announcements direct from the research institutions.
Reporters feel the heat over climate change. Ofcom is about to deliver its crucial report on the Channel 4 programme that upset climate experts. Bob Ward examines how science and journalism can misunderstand each other (Independent, 10/03/08). Related analysis: The Vaccinations That Kill.
OECD OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 (Published March 5, 2008)
Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte (editors) The Future Control of Food - A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security (Earthscan, February 18, 2008). This is the first wide-ranging guide to the issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security.
UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2008 (Release - February 13, 2008). Presents the many humanitarian challenges for children and their families in eastern and southern Africa
WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008 - The MPOWER package (Release - February 7, 2008)
UNCTAD Information Economy Report 2007-2008 (Launched - February 6, 2008). Science and technology for development: the new paradigm of ICT
Paul Polak Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail (Berrett-Koehler, February 1, 2008)
Matthew Green The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa’s Most Wanted (Portobello Books Ltd, (February 1, 2008). New book on Joseph Kony, leader of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, by ex-Reuters journalist.
Human Rights Watch World Report 2008 (Launched - January 31, 2008)
ODI Briefing Paper Pro-poor growth and development (Published - January 2008)
Medact Rehabilitation under Fire: health care in Iraq 2003-2007; Summary (Published - January 2008)
Hugo Slim Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War (Hardback - January, 2008)
Worldwatch Institute State of the World 2008: Innovations for a Sustainable Economy (Published - January 10, 2008)
World Bank Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World (Published - January 9, 2008)
Muhammad Yunus Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Public Affairs, January 7, 2008)
Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions 2008 (Published - January 7, 2008)
The Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture A Transforming Africa; Opportunities and Challenges [Audio] (Broadcast - December 31, 2007). Delivered by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Okonjo-Iweala is Nigeria's former Finance Minister and Foreign Minister and has, in October 2007, been appointed as Managing Director of the World Bank.
UN World Youth Report 2007
’Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis conference web cast (2005). A second conference, ‘Reading Photographs in Crisis,’ is to be mounted at University of Leeds on December 14, 2007.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies World Disasters Report 2007 (Release - December 13, 2007)
Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2007 (Launched - December 5, 2007)
UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2008 (Launched - 29 November, 2007). The report provides a mid-term assessment of where the world stands on its commitment to provide basic education for all children, youth and adults by 2015. It was the subject of a seminar on Feb. 14 at the Irish Aid Centre, presented by Kevin Watkins, Director of the EFA Monitoring Report team in UNESCO. Contact John Kavanagh: T: 01 4082307.
UNDP 2007/2008 Human Development Report, "Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world". (Launched - 27 November 2007)
DCU/DIT/Connect-World Media Coverage of the White Paper on Irish Aid and the Joint Consortium’s Second Report on Gender-Based Violence, 2006 (Launched - 23 November 2007) POST A COMMENT
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report (AR4) (Launched - 17 November 2007). Fourth and final "Synthesis Report" summing up all the findings from its previous reports outlining increasing risks from global warming
Landmine Monitor Report 2007 (Launched - 12 November 2007)
OECD Development Aid at a Glance 2007: Statistics by Region - NEW (A paperback version is also available: Development Aid at a Glance 2007; Publication date: 25 October 2007)
The McKinsey Quarterly Addressing Africa’s health workforce crisis. McKinsey’s work in eight African countries suggests ways to make headway.
Chris Alden China in Africa (Zed Books, publication date: August/ November 2007) Review in the Economist
World Bank geo.worldbank.org BETA. Google Maps "mashed up" with World Bank data, news and information
OECD Latin American Economic Outlook 2008 (Launched - 7 November 2007)
UNDP MDG Monitor (Launched - 1 November 2007) The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
UNEP Global Environment Outlook: environment for development (GEO-4) (Release - 25 October 2007; morning ireland report ) GEO-4 says the well-being of billions of people in the developing world is at risk, because of a failure to remedy the relatively simple problems which have been successfully tackled elsewhere. It finds “a remarkable lack of urgency”, and a “woefully inadequate” global response to climate change.
IMF Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa (Release - 20 October 2007)
World Bank World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development (Release - 19 October 2007)
IFPRI, German Agro-Action and Concern Worldwide Global Hunder Index 2007 (Release - 12 October 2007). According to the report (p.44), 40 per cent of the world’s underweight children aged under five are in India, while more than half of all babies with low birth weight continue to be born in south Asia.
IANSA, Oxfam, and Safeworld Africa’s missing billions: International arms flows and the cost of conflict (Release - 11 October 2007)
BBC World report: Africa on the Move Video series
EU DG Development A Vision of EU Development Videos containing ten episodes on key development themes (EN/FR)
The Courier ACP/EU Magazine. First edition (after a three-year hiatus) of a magazine of Africa - Carribean -Pacific and European Union cooperation and relations.
New section on Burma, RSS feeds, feedback forms... on the Connect-World website. Our website continues to evolve. Please check it out for yourself - explore the site if you haven't already - and let us know what you think.
Suas Global Issues Seminar Series Winter 2007. The courses run in third-level institutions across Ireland and last between 6 and 8 weeks, for 2 hours a week in the evening. Topics covered include Health, Debt, Trade, Equality, the Environment, Gender, Human Rights, HIV, Conflict and Trade.
The Commitment to Development Index 2007 (Release - 10 October 2007). Ireland had a mixed scorecard but was ranked 5th for aid and 10th overall of 21 rich countries in 2007.
Myths about the Developing World Entertaining and enlightening video from Gapminder, an innovative non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. More from Gapminder
UNCTAD Economic Development in Africa (Release - 26 September 2007)
Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2007 (Release - 26 September 2007). Ireland's score has fallen.
UNCTAD The Least Developed Countries Report, 2007 (Release - 19 July 2007)
World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators: 1996-2006 (Release - 10 July 2007; see also)
The Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy Failed States Index and analysis (July/August issue of Foreign Policy Magazine)
UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2007
Review of the Development Co-operation Policies and Programmes of the European Community (press release, 4 July 2007)
Paul Collier The Bottom Billion (OUP, 2007). Paul Collier spoke about his book on RTE's Morning Ireland on 20 July, 2007 ). Book Review: Compelling account of why the poor get poorer, John O’Shea, Goal in the Sunday Business Post
UNFPA State of World Population 2007 (Released 27 June 2007)
Eurobarometer Survey Europeans and Development Aid (Released June 2007; Survey Feb-Mar 2007)
OECD African Economic Outlook 2007 (Publication Date: May 2007)
Roger C. Riddell Does Foreign Aid Really Work? (OUP, 19 April 2007 - paperback: 7 August 2007)
World Bank World Development Indicators 2007 (Released 15 April 2007)
The AIDS/HIV Pandemic in Black Africa and the Irish Print Media: A Case Study of Reportorial Neglect and Under Representation. This is the first research monograph investigating Irish print media coverage of the AIDS/HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa and situated within the context of the Irish and global pandemic. Copyright: 2007.
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