October 2009 from weitzenegger.de

International cooperation professionals willing to end poverty

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  1. Please welcome new staff at AGEG's Head Office
  2. AGEG Consultants eG sign Framework Contracts with the European Commission
  3. EU Development policy to focus on climate and democracy, says Mrs Carlsson
  4. EU confirmed its position as the world's leading donor in 2008
  5. EU Commission report on European competitiveness
  6. EU: Access to finance major problem for SMEs
  7. AL-INVEST IV: A bridge between EU and Latin American SMEs
  8. Launch of a new financial product for development
  9. Asia must promote employment, support those without decent jobs, ADB says
  10. Asia's Progress on Millennium Development Goals Remains Mixed
  11. Call for Contributions - Migration and Development, CEFE
  12. EIT needs experts for the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs)
  13. Call for Proposals: The Microinsurance Innovation Facility
  14. Publications
  15. Training and Events
  16. Websites of the Month

Take a Deep Thought

Before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them you are a mile away and you have their shoes. Jack Handey


1. Please welcome new staff at AGEG's Head Office

AGEG Consultants eG has two new Managing Directors, who share general management tasks. Both are experienced Consultants and are named Harald, but are not relatives. Harald Himsel will lead the business development, while Harald Speidel looks more on the administration and financial management. Martina Jacobson joined the team as Project Manager for Training, E-Learning, and Sustainable Tourism. All activities of AGEG Consultants are coordinated from AGEG's Head Office in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany. A team of 16 people is responsible for the acquisition and management of short and long term projects as well as for the provision of services to AGEG's members and associates. http://www.ageg.de/headoffice/headoffice_team/


2. AGEG Consultants eG sign Multiple Framework Contracts with the European Commission

The European Commission has selected three consortia in which AGEG participates as partner for the Multiple Framework Contract to recruit technical assistance for short-term expertise. The Framework Contract Beneficiaries is an instrument for fast and transparent recruiting of experts for activities in the sole interest of the beneficiary countries/authorities of the European Commission’s external aid programmes. We expect to receive requests for international and national expertise by the European Commission from now on.

AGEG is now a 'preferred supplier' for Technical Assistance services to the EC for the following specific areas of expertise:
- Transport and Infrastructure sector (Lot 2)
- Environment (Lot 6)
- Humanitarian Aid and crisis management (Lot 12)

AGEG is enlarging the database of individual experts especially for these sectors. We are looking for interested and qualified experts. Candidates should have experience in EC development co-operation and in conducting short-term missions (evaluations, studies, technical assistance, etc.). If you are interested and agree that we can include your CV in our database, please send your updated CV to Angela Kirchherr at a.kirchherr @ ageg.de. See http://www.ageg.de/project_jobs/


3. EU Development policy to focus on climate and democracy, says Mrs Carlsson

As president in office of the EU Council, the Minister for International Development Cooperation of Sweden, Gunilla Carlsson, presented to MEPs from the Committee on Development the presidency's priorities for the second semester of 2009: development as part of the climate change agenda, democracy building as well as policy coherence and effectiveness. Helping to ensure that developing countries can effectively fight poverty in all its forms and meet the challenges that follow in the wake of the global economic crisis and climate change are the main priorities the Swedish presidency in the field of development. Replying to some questions of MEPs about the sometimes incoherent EU approach, the Swedish minister encouraged the European Parliament to make full use of its scrutinising powers (budgetary and co-decision procedures) in order to ensure that the EU makes the development cooperation more effective and ensures that different EU policy areas and actors work together more coherently. http://www.europarl.europa.eu


4. EU confirmed its position as the world's leading donor in 2008

The newly published 2009 annual report on the European Community's development and external assistance policies and their implementation in 2008 shows that the European Union continues to be the world's leading development aid donor, accounting for 60% of world aid in 2008. The Commission alone committed EUR 12 billion, more than a fifth of the EU total. At the same time the quality and effectiveness of aid are improving, as are transparency and the monitoring of results. The Commission has continued its efforts to make its aid more effective by working more closely with other international donors and by simplifying its procedures. Considerable efforts have also been made to channel aid through national systems in order to strengthen ownership at local level and reduce transaction costs for the partner countries. In 2008 the Commission also stepped up its efforts to mainstream such issues as gender, the environment, and the rights of children and indigenous people in the development process. Source: RAPID http://tinyurl.com/yd4aodv


5. EU Commission report on European competitiveness

The European Commission issued its Annual Report on Competition Policy for 2008. The report provides a summary of the most important developments with regards to EU competition policy and focuses on major enforcement actions. Furthermore, the ways in which tools of competition policy have been applied to combat the financial crisis are outlined and the benefits to consumers of competition policy are underlined. For the first time, the 2008 Annual Report includes a special chapter on a topic considered to be of particular importance in the field of competition policy. The topic chosen is ''Cartels and consumers''. In 2008, the Commission fined 34 undertakings in seven cartel decisions. In cases such as the Banana cartel, consumers directly suffered from higher prices until the Commission broke up the price fixing cartel. http://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/annual_report/index.html


6. EU: Access to finance major problem for SMEs

The European Commission published the results of the new ''Flash Eurobarometer: SMEs' access to finance''. The survey, conducted with 9071 firms in 27 EU Member States, Croatia, Iceland and Norway, was set up to assess EU companies' use of various sources of finance, to get a picture of the magnitude of companies' difficulties in getting access to finance, and to obtain an overview of companies' expectations for financing their future projects and developments. Overall, the survey revealed that businesses face difficulties in accessing finance, as almost half of them have problems to access bank loans. Despite the fact that availability of bank loans has deteriorated over the last six months for 46% of SMEs, over 70% of small businesses were able to receive all or part of the bank load they wanted, and only 15% were fully rejected. http://tinyurl.com/yantrpd


7. AL-INVEST IV: A bridge between EU and Latin American SMEs

The fourth phase of AL-INVEST, financed by the European Commission, aims at supporting the internationalisation of Latin American SMEs in collaboration with their European partners in order to contribute to reinforce social cohesion in the region. Unlike the previous phases, the fourth phase of the AL-INVEST (2009-2012) is implemented through three groups of business organisations belonging to three distinct geographical areas of Latin America: 1. Central America-Cuba-México; 2. Andean Region; 3. Mercosur Chile and Venezuela. These three groups are supported through horizontal services delivered by a European consortium lead by EUROCHAMBRES. This consortium will carry out market studies, business meetings, technical assistance, individual exchange programmes and trainings. In addition, all European business organisations with experience and/or interest in working with Latin America will be gathered under a Network of Interested Institutions. AL-INVEST IV website: http://www.al-invest4.eu


8. Launch of a new financial product for development

AFD and Crédit Agricole Asset Management have launched CAAM AFD Avenirs durables (Sustainable Futures), an innovative mutual fund that allows savers to participate in financing projects in developing countries. This innovative product aims to create new sources of financing for development, while at the same time meeting the demands of savers seeking socially responsible investments http://www.caamafdavenirsdurables.org


9. Asia must promote employment, support those without decent jobs, ADB says

Creating the conditions for good jobs and, more importantly, social protection programs for those unable to find decent work is an urgent priority for governments in Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss told a conference in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Speaking at the conclusion of a three-day conference titled ''The Impact of the Global Economic Slowdown on Poverty and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific,'' Ms. Schaefer-Preuss said that the recent global economic downturn has cut demand for the exports on which the region’s economies depend, forcing job cuts in many of the industries that send their goods overseas and slashing the incomes of thousands of people in the region. Many may struggle to find alternative employment. ''Before the crisis – in the context of high growth rates – only about half of the region's young labor entrants could find decent jobs, while the rest had to sustain themselves and their families through the informal sector,'' said Ms. Schaefer-Preuss. ''The need for social protection strategies to address the post-crisis labor market becomes more urgent with the prospect that growth rates may not reach the levels of just a few years ago.'' The conference, organized by the ADB, together with the governments of Viet Nam and the People's Republic of China, the ASEAN Secretariat and nine development partners, saw over 350 representatives from ADB, regional governments, civil society, intergovernment organizations and academe discuss the social impact of the global crisis and the need for social policy reforms. http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2009/13020-asian-employments-priorities/


10. Asia's Progress on Millennium Development Goals Remains Mixed

Asia and Pacific countries continue to make broad progress in reducing extreme poverty but hunger still remains widespread and many economies are struggling to meet other Millennium Development Goals, including reductions in maternal mortality rates and access to sanitation, latest available data show. Source: ADB http://www.adb.org/article.asp?id=12968


11. Call for Contributions - Migration and Development, CEFE

GTZ has contracted CEFE International to develop a Tool Box for the Promotion of Private Sector Development Commitment of Migrants. 15 innovative and well described ideas are needed. Approved contributions (4 pages) will be honoured with up to 375,00 USD. But you can gain even more. http://www.cefe.net/en/makemoney/call-contributions-migration-and-development


12. EIT needs experts for the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs)

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) launched a call addressed to individuals for the establishment of a database of independent experts to assist the EIT in the process of the evaluation and implementation of Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). The database will include profiles from the following areas: Sustainable energy, Climate change adoption and mitigation, Future information and communication society, Business creation and venture capital, Innovation in existing business, Entrepreneurial education, Research and product development. The list drawn up from the date of publication of this call will be valid until the end of 2013. Applications may be submitted at any time, up to the last 3 months of validity of the list. To register as an independent expert, see http://eit.europa.eu/experts.html


13. Call for Proposals: The Microinsurance Innovation Facility

The Microinsurance Innovation Facility and the European Development Research Network (EUDN) invite academic researchers to submit proposals for research that will contribute new knowledge to support microinsurance development in developing countries. Deadline: 30 October 2009. http://www.eudnet.net/microinsurance.html


14. Publications

ADB Improving Its Development Effectiveness, Says Report
http://www.adb.org/article.asp?id=12936
ADB operations have delivered tangible benefits to the lives of millions of people in Asia and the Pacific over the past four years, while there are several areas needing further improvement at both the project level and within the organization itself, says a new development effectiveness report.

Aid for Trade - Review urges trade opening to combat global recession
http://ictsd.net/i/news/bridgesweekly/50312/
According to participants at the Second Global Review of Aid for Trade, developing countries should open their borders to trade in order to stimulate economic growth. The two-day meeting was held in Geneva and brought together heads of regional and global financial institutions as well as international development agencies. Strategies for improving trade capacities for developing countries amid the ongoing global economic slowdown were discussed.

Climate Change Reference Guide and Glossary
http://tinyurl.com/yexb39q
This is an updated version of the reference guide that originally appeared in State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World, published by the Worldwatch Institute.

Economic Development in Africa Report 2009
http://tinyurl.com/ybh9fcv
Strengthening regional economic integration for Africa’s development
The Economic Development in Africa Report 2009 was published by UNCTAD. It argues that regional integration is essential for sustained development on the continent, especially within the context of crisis. The report analyses trends in the trade of goods and services, migration and investment, assessing the potential for increasing them in ways that support economic development. Source: GTZ.

Fighting Poverty with Facts: Community-Based Monitoring Systems
http://tinyurl.com/y8db6dc
This book and case studies show how accurate local information can help reduce poverty and improve governance.

Financing for Development and the Reform of the Financial Architecture: A View from Latin America
http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/global/06318.pdf
DoG Briefing Paper N° 5by Fabiola Mieres, FES Buenos Aires.

GIGA Journals available free-of-charge on the Internet
http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/
The four renowned academic journals of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies are now available online and free-of-charge. Every Internet user can now access the full content of the GIGA Journal Family at no cost, which means that the reach of the journals is now significantly greater.

How to ensure development friendly economic partnership agreements. Lessons across regions
http://tinyurl.com/ydnfolv
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) provide an important opportunity for deeper regional integration, broader trade with the European Union and enhanced economic and social development in the African, Caribbean and Pacifi c (ACP) countries. Based on a thorough legal, institutional, and economic assessment, the authors explore the link between the rules negotiated under comprehensive EPAs and their development potential. And they provide fresh ideas into how we can best ensure that EPAs assist ACP countries in reaping the gains of regional integration and trade.

How to Reform the International Financial System?
http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/global/06693.pdf
FES Briefing Paper 11-2009 by Xu Mingqi, FES Shanghai, September 2009
With the peak of the financial crisis in the rear window, Xu Mingqi gives a Chinese perspective on how to reform the international financial system in order to avoid similar future crises.

International Migration Outlook: SOPEMI 2009
http://tinyurl.com/y9js9yt
This publication examines the economic crisis and its impact on international migration, describes how flows and migration policy have been recently affected by the crisis, and analyses the forecast medium and long-term impact.

Is there demand for formality among informal firms:
evidence from microfirms in downtown Lima
http://tinyurl.com/y8omoyg
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik Discussion Paper 12/2009 Miguel Jaramillo.

Knowledge Web on SMEs and entrepreneurship:
Ambitious entrepreneurship, high-growth firms and macroeconomic growth
http://tinyurl.com/y8m523n
The study assesses the impact of ambitious entrepreneurship and high growth firms on subsequent macroeconomic growth for a sample of countries. According to the study, ambitious entrepreneurship - entrepreneurs expecting to grow their firm - has a positive impact on macroeconomic growth. The study reveals that the effects of ambitious entrepreneurship are stronger than that of entrepreneurship in general. Moreover, its effects are stronger in low-income countries that in high-income countries. In particular, established high-growth firms do not seem to drive macroeconomic growth.

NORRAG News 42 - A safari towards aid effectiveness?
http://www.norrag.org/latest_issue.php
This issue of NORRAG News takes a critical look at the Paris declaration & the Accra agenda for action as part of the new aid reform architecture.

Regional Atlas on West Africa
http://tinyurl.com/yag8g76
This atlas describes the West African region, its population, settlement, territories, its economy and its vulnerabilities. It analyses the developments and the ways in which West Africa is conforming to a constantly changing global environment.

Sustainable Economic Development in Conflict-Affected Environments
http://tinyurl.com/18r
This comprehensive GTZ-Guidebook on Sustainable Economic Development in Conflict affected Environments synthesises that work and contributes to the current international efforts, in particular of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED), to improve economic development approaches in these difficult conditions. It explains the challenges of working in a conflictive environment and guides development practitioners towards successful project planning, implementation and monitoring.

The rising importance of sustainable development in the South American trade agenda
http://tinyurl.com/yby99p8
This paper recently published by IISD summarizes the main findings of four national case studies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru). It puts forward the hypothesis that the links between trade and environmental and labour issues have gained importance when it comes to the performance of exports and trade negotiations of Latin American countries.

World Bank: Doing business 2010: Reforming through difficult times
http://tinyurl.com/y9ncgjg
The report assesses the ease of doing business in a wide range of countries based on a set of specified indicators affecting 10 areas of everyday business: starting a business, enforcing contracts, employing workers, getting credit, closing a business, registering property, protecting investors, dealing with construction permits, paying taxes and trading cross borders. The 10 indicators are updated, and the countries ranked according to the analysis of economic outcomes.


15. Training and Events

InWEnt and WBI invite participants to International Business Forum eConference
5 - 23October, 2009, Free
http://tinyurl.com/yaaaawn
The eConference will look at the impact of and responses to the economic, financial and climate change crises in Africa and will serve as a lead-up to the 13th International Business Forum ''Global Crises-African Challenges'', jointly organized by InWEnt and WBI in Ghana on October 4-6, 2009.

Value Chain Design for Impact
http://hposthumus.nl
20 - 22 October 2009, 2 - 4 February 2010, 22 - 24 June 2010
There is an increasing demand for solid result measurement. The DCED has developed practical guidelines, based on proven good practice. Applying these guidelines improves project performance and enables you to communicate credible results. By the end of the course you will be able to set up a practical result measurement system that can be used for internal learning and decision-making.Contact hans @ hposthumus.nl or hbekkers @ business4development.com.

Global Forum on Remittances 2009
http://www.ifad.org/remittances/events/forum09.htm
Tunis, Tunisia, 22-23 October 2009, Laico Tunis Hotel
This year’s forum will mainly focus on remittances to and within the African continent. The objective of the forum is to raise awareness among different stakeholders in the remittance market and highlight the potential benefits that remittances can bring to the social and economic development of the African continent. The Global Forum on Remittances 2009 is the third in a series of groundbreaking conferences dedicated to highlighting the importance of international migration and the vital flow of remittances that result. The conference is part of a series of events devoted to the creation of worldwide synergies among government, civil society and the private sector stakeholders that are key to maximizing the development impact of migration. The importance of this process is further highlighted by the Group of Eight’s explicit call on reducing the cost of remittances by 50 per cent over the next five years.

SEEP Annual Conference
http://www.seepnetwork.org/Pages/conference.aspx
Arlington, VA 22204 USA, 2-6 November 2009, Sheraton National Hotel
In a continuing effort to Power Connections among microenterprise practitioners, this year's SEEP Annual Conference will host two special events dedicated exclusively to SEEP member-proposed topics, products and tools.

Corporate Governance & Responsibility Forum 2009
http://www.cgrforum.com
Dead Sea, Jordan, 2-4 November 2009, Marriott Hotel
The Corporate Governance and Responsibility Forum 2009, is a highly interactive Forum that will build on outcomes and successes from the Forum previously held in 2007.

Industrial Policy in Developing Countries
http://tinyurl.com/nmnr3l
Bonn, 18.-19.11.2009, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik
International Workshop in commemoration of Jörg Meyer-Stamer.

Information, Knowledge and Communication - Web 2.0 in Development Co-operation
http://www.eadi.org/index.php?id=994
Bonn, Germany, 19 - 20 November 2009
A seminar for communication professionals in the field of development research and co-operation , organised by EADI and Euforic. Registration deadline: 31 October 2009.

Workshop: Promoting Global Value Chains: The Role of Governance
http://www.eadi.org/index.php?id=1120
Maastricht, Netherlands, 26-27 November 2009
EADI Working Group on Industrialisation Strategies in co-operation with Maastricht School of Management.

Strategies to Achieve Pro-Poor Growth in Brazil, China and India:
The Case of the Education Sector, International Workshop
http://gc21.inwent.org
Berlin, Germany, 10. - 11. December 2009, InWEnt Training Centre
Organised by Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) / InWEnt Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung.


16. Websites of the Month

Child Migration Research Network
http://www.childmigration.net
The Child Migration Research network (CMRN) has been established to help assess the impact of migration on children and youth. The aim of the CMRN is to bring together researchers who look at how migration affects children and to highlight research work, especially that in grey literature or other hard to reach sources, that focuses on this area.

CTA Weblog and weekly Newsletter
http://brussels.cta.int
CTA's new features include: A section where an invitee per week will comment some of the most burning development issues discussed in Brussels. A signpost for sharing, e-mailing and printing an article, links to the source for each news item. News categorised by thematic groups.Links to the Brussels Development Briefings and to the EC, ACP and other Brussels-based websites. Other features, such as the daily updated calendar of events, remain.

dgCommunities is now Zunia - Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Worldwide
http://zunia.org
Zunia is an online network for knowledge sharing and collaboration among development professionals worldwide. It covers extensive topic, collecting information from more than 200 development organizations. Together with its members, Zunia is aggregating reports and other information to help us all do a better job in aid and development.

EU – China: Civil Society Forum
http://eu-china.net
The Site aims to make social, environmental and human rights objectives form the basis of the European-Chinese relations and to ensure that labour standards and additional social and ecological standards are adhered to in Chinese affiliated companies and suppliers of European enterprises.

Eurostep website on EU Country & Regional Programming to ACP countries
http://www.acp-programming.eu
This website is a tool for civil society actors in ACP countries and in Europe to follow the discussions on the programming of aid to ACP countries under the 10th European Development Fund (2008-2013). Indeed the European Commission is currently programming aid to 78 countries in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific. The aid programme covers 22.8 billion euros over the 5 year period.

Experience Development
http://www.experiencedevelopment.org
The UK's most comprehensive development sector guide, providing information on the latest in development research, news, events and jobs.

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
http://www.gemconsortium.org
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is a not-for-profit academic research consortium that has as its goal making high quality international research data on entrepreneurial activity readily available to as wide an audience as possible. GEM is the largest single study of entrepreneurial activity in the world.

ILO job crisis observatory
http://www.ilo.org/jobcrisis
The International Labour Organization (ILO), a has launched a website which will present the most relevant analysis and information on the impact of the economic crisis on the world of work, and on policy responses to the job crisis.

Institute for Research and Debate on Governance (IRG)
http://www.institut-gouvernance.org
The Institute for research and debate on governance (IRG) intends to provide food for thought and help sharing approaches and experiences on governance One of the major objectives in this domain is to give rise to, confront and bring together new conceptions of governance which move away from the Western-based notions of ''good governance” and constitute a source of renewed proposals for regulating societies.

International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
http://aidtransparency.net
IATI will help those involved in aid programmes to better track what aid is being used for and what it is achieving – from the taxpayers in donor countries who provide the money, to those in developing countries who benefit from aid spending.

New blog on the future international role of the European Union
http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/en/regulars/blogs/Europe-s-International-Role
The decisions that are made in the autumn of 2009 will shape Europe’s international role in the future. The script that drives global policy making is being rewritten, in response to the financial crisis, climate change and global security challenges. Following the recent publication of an article on Europe's global challenges by Simon Maxwell, Paul Engel, Dirk Messner and Pierre Schori, the magazine the Broker has created a special blog to stimulate further debate on how the decisions made over the next three months can shape Europe's international role in the future.

New website for Development Practitioners
http://www.alternativedevelopment.net/
A new website has just been launched aimed at experienced development consultants, as a forum for them to exchange their views and hands-on experiences of development projects. Alternative Development is not about the theories of development but about the often mundane matters on which success actually hinges, from basic project design faults, out-of-date assumptions, the procedures for winning donor bids, recruiting experts, engaging counterparts in change, straightjacketed project budgets etc.

Northern Alliance for Sustainability / The Switch
http://anped.org/theswitch
The Switch covers various campaigns, new book releases, academic papers, policy processes and more. It takes a holistic and progressive approach to the sustainability debate and does not shy away from addressing controversial topics. The new Switch website is designed by Erol Hofmans. During the coming months, we will present more features and make the Switch your knowledge portal for sustainability.

One World Action
http://owa.netxtra.net
One World Action is working to create the power and opportunity for the poorest citizens to transform their own lives, and to challenge the international policies that make and keep people poor.

Portal of NGO national platforms for non governmental diplomacy
http://www.ong-ngo.org
This Forum aims at facilitating cooperation between national platforms and regional coalitions of NGOs at the regional, inter-regional and international levels through common advocacy and capacity building actions.

PREVAL builds capacity in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
http://preval.org
PREVAL, a Regional Programme working in Latin America and the Caribbean, is an unique global platform working with (national and local) government institutions, project technical units, and rural organisations to build and strengthen their capacity to develop and implement Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) systems as opportunities to produce information to feed into decision making and learning.

Rural Poverty Portal
http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org
Powered by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Rural Poverty Portal is a website where rural poor people, policy-makers, donors, research institutes, non-governmental organizations and other development partners can share information about eradicating rural poverty. Source: IFAD

The Executive Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation (EACI)
http://ec.europa.eu/eaci/
EACI is an executive body composed by an international team of specialists on energy, transport, finance, environment, competitiveness and innovation from both the European Commission and the private sector.

The MIX Market ™ - a global, web-based, microfinance information platform
http://mixmarket.org
It provides information to sector actors and the public at large on microfinance institutions (MFIs) worldwide, public and private funds that invest in microfinance, MFI networks, raters/external evaluators, advisory firms, and governmental and regulatory agencies.

The World Economy
http://www.theworldeconomy.org
This web site aims at presenting our bestsellers The World Economy: a millenial perspective, it also presents its sequel The World Economy: historical statistics.

United Nations site for the MDG Indicators
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Default.aspx
This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The data and analyses are the product of the work of the Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDG Indicators, coordinated by the United Nations Statistics Division. You will also find the official progress reports and documents produced by IAEG. Links to related sites and documents and constantly updated news will keep you up to date with the ongoing activities on MDG monitoring.

WBI Launches New Website
http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/
Want to learn more about WBI's renewal strategy? Listen to Sanjay Pradhan, the World Bank's VP responsible for WBI, and read more about our innovative approaches to knowledge exchange and South-South learning.

Web 2.0 for research, administration and teaching
http://web2practice.jiscinvolve.org
The Joint Information Systems Committee : http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ (JISC), an organisation which supports education and research in the use of information and communications technology (ICT), have launched a series of web2practice guides: to explain how emergent web technologies like RSS, microblogging and social media can enhance working practice. The guides and the resources used to create them can be downloaded: http://web2practice.jiscinvolve.org/downloads/, modified and shared under a creative commons licence.

World Business Fair
http://www.worldbusinessfair.com
An International Trade Promotion Platform For Global Entrepreneurs & Professionals, running on NING.

Weitzenegger's International Development Job Market
http://www.weitzenegger.de/new/jobmarket.php
Looking for a job in development cooperation? This Website gives you a list of professional opportunities around the world. Updated as you arrive. I am still working on updates, so come back soon.

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