To mark yesterday’s International Day of Older Persons, Help Age International has launched their Global AgeWatch Index. The Global AgeWatch Index aims to provide the first-ever overview of the wellbeing of older people around the world, showing what countries are doing to support their ageing populations. Whilst only 91 countries are included this year, it is claimed that this covers 89% of the global population of those over 60 years
To celebrate the start of the new academic term, Wiley have kindly provided free access to a selection of articles on African Economics from across our social science and humanities journals. All articles are freely available until 31 December 2013. Access the full list of articles are on Wiley’s website. A total of 50 have been made available for use, and can be read online, downloaded, printed and saved. Examples of available
The IMF eLibrary for the UK Data Service is available via Mimas and offers the entire catalogue of IMF publications in several digital formats. It is an indispensable tool for economics research and analysis including over 10,000 periodicals, books and working papers from 1951 onwards containing information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalisation, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction and more. Access from: http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/resources/a-z/data/. It
Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding : Peace In Between : Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding / Mats Berdal, Astri Suhrke [e-book from ebrary] Ethnographic research in the construction industry / edited by Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, and Andrew Dainty. Women and wars / edited by Carol Cohn ; with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe. Development, security, and aid : geopolitics and geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development / Jamey
Image taken from Eldis website: http://www.eldis.org/ Catch up with the latest Development Studies news via Eldis. Find out about development policy, practice and research. Including subjects such as, agriculture and food, conflict and security, HIV and AIDS, climate change and conflict security. Read about the most recent news regarding China, Brazil, India and South Africa as super powers. And how Eldis has joined the Institute of Development Studies and global
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has completed the network of Open Data Platforms in all 54 African countries. This resource provides data on a myriad of topics- ranging from food prices and economic data, through to mobile telephone ownership. It will allow open access to the data needed for managing and monitoring development results in African countries, including tracking progress on the Millennium Development Goals. The Open Data Platform is
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) eLibrary Text Collection is now available to SOAS library users via our subscription to the UK Data Service. The IMF eLibrary Text Collection has periodicals, books and working papers – over 10,000 documents from 1951 onwards. This exciting new resource has information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalisation, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice and poverty reduction.
Meeting the challenge of financing water and sanitation : tools and approaches. Ogata-mura : sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village / Donald C. Wood. [e-book from ebrary] Pathways to industrialization in the twenty-first century : new challenges and emerging paradigms / edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé, and Ludovico Alcorta. Water governance in OECD countries : a multi-level approach. Water, democracy and neoliberalism in india :
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Assessing the potential for poverty reduction through investments in agricultural water management : a methodology for country level analysis / developed by Guido Santini, Livia Peiser, Jean-Marc Faurès. Development through bricolage : rethinking institutions for natural resource management / Frances Cleaver. Land and post-conflict peacebuilding / edited by Jon Unruh and Rhodri Williams. Low carbon development : key issues / edited by Frauke Urban and Johan Nordensvärd. Communities of complicity
