Internet Resources by Topic
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Economic Development

• PRAXIS - access to a vast array of archival resources on international and comparative social development.
  http://caster.ssw.upenn.edu/~restes/praxis.html
  

• International Labor Organization: Internet Resources on Development
  http://webfusion.ilo.org/public/english/links/index.cfm
  

• Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices. Released by the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, the U.S. Department of State
  http://www.state.gov/www/issues/economic/trade_reports/
  

• Country Commercial Guides prepared annually by U.S. embassies
  http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/2000/index.html
  

• Directory of International Labor Organizations (from AFL-CIO)
  http://www.aflcio.org/unionand/internat.htm
  

• United Nations Development Program
  http://www.undp.org/
  

• The World Bank
  http://www.worldbank.org/
  

• The Good Governance Section of the International Monetary Fund
  http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/exrp/govern/govindex.htm
  

• The Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS) - a joint service of the IFC and the World Bank
  http://www.fias.net/
  

• OECD - Development Assistance Committee
  http://www.oecd.org/dac/
  

• The Implementing Policy Change Project (IPC) - an activity of the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) Center for Democracy and Governance. IPC works in developing countries around the world to improve policy implementation and democratic governance.
  http://ipc.msi-inc.com/ipc.html
  

• Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
  http://www.ids.ac.uk/
  

• The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Economic Reform Program
  http://www.ceip.org/programs/polecon/polecon.htm
  

• IDEA's fifth Democracy Forum "Democracy and Poverty: A Missing Link", organized in collaboration with the World Bank and UNDP
  http://www.int-idea.se/2000df/dfintro1.html
  

Regional resources on economic development (cross-listed):

• African Development Bank
  http://www.afdb.org/
  

• Inter-American Development Bank
  http://www.iadb.org/
  

• Asian Development Bank
  http://www.adb.org/
  

• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
  http://www.apecsec.org.sg/
  

• The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) fosters the transition towards open market-oriented economies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) committed to and applying the principles of multiparty democracy, pluralism and market economics.
  http://www.ebrd.org/english/index.htm
  

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