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Selected Websites
- Asian Development BankThe Asian Development Bank aims for an Asia and Pacific free from poverty. Its mission is to help developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people.
- Fair Trade International[...] a global organization working to secure a better deal for farmers and workers.
- Foreign Trade StatisticsPurpose: To provide detailed statistics on goods and estimates of services shipped from the U.S. to foreign countries. The United States Code, Title 13, requires this program. Participation is mandatory. The Treasury Department assists in the conduct of this program.
- Stat USAThe United States Census Bureau provides data about the nation’s people and economy. Every 10 years, it conducts the Population and Housing Census, in which every resident in the United States is counted.
- United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics DatabaseFree access to detailed global trade data. UN Comtrade is a repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables.
- World BankThe World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world.
- World Development ReportsThe World Bank Group works in every major area of development. We provide a wide array of financial products and technical assistance, and we help countries share and apply innovative knowledge and solutions to the challenges they face.
- World Fair Trade OrganizationThe World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) believes that trade must benefit the most vulnerable and deliver sustainable livelihoods by developing opportunities especially for small and disadvantaged producers.
Key Journals and Books
- Development Policy ReviewDevelopment Policy Review is a peer-reviewed journal that "makes the crucial links between research and policy in international development"
Fair Trade and Social Justice by Drawing upon fine-grained anthropological studies of a variety of regions and commodity systems including Darjeeling tea, coffee, crafts, and cut flowers, the chapters in Fair Trade and Social Justice represent the first works to use ethnographic case studies to assess whether the Fair Trade Movement is actually achieving its goals.
From Disintegration to Reintegration by Understanding the underlying dynamics shaping the contours and most salient impacts of international integration that have emerged--and likely to emerge prospectively--in the region is thus a crucial challenge for the medium term economic development agenda, not only for policymakers in the countries on themselves, but also for their trading partners, the international financial institutions, the donor community and the future of the world trading system as a whole. This book addresses this challenge.
Development's Displacements by A series of illustrative case studies drawn from around the globe provide causal accounts of why and how displacement occurs, what its effects on communities, ecosystems, and economies look like, and the normative or ethical positions held by key actors involved.
A Venture in Africa by A vivid personal history of the an international business career. A Venture in Africa takes the reader through the twists and turns of doing business with African states and leaders in the turbulent 1970s and later.
