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Globalisation Guide
www.globalisationguide.org
Resource for students prepared by the Australian Apec Study Centre. It
presents the arguments of both those who believe globalisation is a force
for good and those who believe it is a force for evil. A links page leads
to dozens of key websites on globalisation.
International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
www.ifg.org
An alliance of 60 leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers
and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public
education in response to economic globalization. Representing over 60
organizations in 25 countries, the International Forum on Globalization
associates come together out of a shared concern that the world's corporate
and political leadership is undertaking a restructuring of global politics
and economics that may prove as historically significant as any event
since the Industrial Revolution. This restructuring is happening at tremendous
speed, with little public disclosure of the profound consequences affecting
democracy, human welfare, local economies, and the natural world.
OneWorld.net
www.oneworld.net/themes/topic/?doc_url=topic_30_1.shtml
The OneWorld database contains tens of thousands of documents on globalisation
from the websites of the 173 partners working on this issue.
Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
www.ids.ac.uk/ids/global/
The IDS globalisation team's policy-related research and advisory agenda
is focused on spreading the gains from globalisation. Globalisation has
benefited many people, but it is clear that it has also contributed to
increases in inequality, both within and between countries.
Panos
www.panos.org.uk/global/overview.asp?ID=1000
Globalisation and Poverty Online Debate - Over 5,000 people around the
world subscribed to this on-line debate on Globalisation and Poverty,
initiated by the World Bank Development Forum and co-moderated by the
Development Forum and Panos through the month of May 2000.
Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation
Work for the Poor
www.globalisation.gov.uk/
The UK Government's second White Paper on International Development entitled
"Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor"
was launched on the 11th December 2000.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol 79
No 9)
www.who.int/docstore/bulletin/tableofcontents/2001/vol.79no.9.html
The September 2001 issue of the WHO Bulletin focuses on globalisation
and its consequences for public health.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development: Was
it worthwhile?
www.iied.org/docs/wssd/wssdreview.pdf
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has
produced a useful summary document on Health and Sustainable Development
as part of its efforts relating to the World Summit on Sustainable Development
held in Johannesburg in 2002. The paper notes that:
‘For sustainable development to mean anything people must be healthy
enough to benefit from it and not have their lives cut off prematurely.
Development without health is meaningless. But the processes that are
likely to occur in a world undergoing globalisation, climate change, urbanisation,
population increase and many other changes, will impact on human health
in many complex ways. Some of them will benefit use, others will create
new threats to survival and health, while many others will have a complex
nature of threats.’
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
http://www.iatp.org/global/
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) has a series of
pages that look at aspects of globalisation and global governance. It
says that 'Globalisation ties together the many threads of our economic,
social and cultural research and organizing. From our homepage you can
access IATP's principle online databases of documents, related sites,
news stories, events and much more.'
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