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The Big Question
Does aid work?
How fair is free trade? and
Should Africa be left alone?
Poverty and Development into the 21st Century
Tim Allen and Alan Thomas (editors)
ISBN: 0-19-877626-8, Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2000
Breaking the pressing and complex questions of development down into single topics, this book combines chapters written by experts in each field with simple, visual aids - photographs, tables and diagrams. Poverty and Development offers an invaluable way to avoid the simplistic approach to the real challenges of the real world.
Individual Courses in Development - Undergraduate
U213 - International Development: Challenges for a World in Transition - International development in its many manifestations presents one of the most pressing challenges for the world this century. This course explores the nature of those issues and responses to them, in the context of changing global, political and economic circumstances. The emphasis of the course is on development needs wherever they arise, with their broadest global implications.
DU301- A World of Whose Making? - How can we best understand and analyse international developments such as the role of the World Trade Organization, the power of the USA, or global contests over culture and rights? What are the main forms of international order and disorder, and are they changing?
U212 - Childhood - What does childhood actually mean? Children's relationship to work, the economy, poverty issues, children's rights and more form the major themes of this course - including historical as well as international perspectives.
Degree programme - Undergraduate
International Studies By the end of this BA/BSc programme, you’ll have a broad understanding of contemporary global issues; of the key political, economic, environmental and cultural aspects of the global order; and of the dynamics of the global system. You’ll have an appreciation of cultural diversity and a knowledge of international institutions, together with an awareness of international citizenship
Post Graduate Programmes
The Open University offers three levels of Post Graduate study in International Development - the Postgraduate Certificate, the Postgraduate Diploma, and the MSc degree in Development Studies. All are aimed at professionals in project management and those who have responsibility for development initiatives in government, non-governmental organisations, international and inter-governmental agencies and public and private enterprises; people who intend to work in those areas, or who have an interest in public action for development; those who want to combine important elements of development and management; and those who want to expand their conceptual and practical skills by taking an international perspective on management.
The courses offered as part of these programmes are:
TU870 - Capacities for Managing Development
TU871 - Development: context and practice
TU872 - Institutional Development: Conflicts, Values and Meanings
TU874 - The Development Management Project
TU875 - War, Intervention and Development
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ActionAid - ActionAid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting for a better world - a world without poverty. As one of the UK's largest development agencies, they work in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over nine million of the world's poorest people.
Oxfam - Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.
With many of the causes of poverty global in nature, members of Oxfam International believe they can achieve greater impact in addressing issues of poverty by their collective efforts.
Save the Children Fund - Working worldwide, Save The Children aim to make immediate improvements in the lives of children everywhere.
UK Department for International Development - The Department for International Development (DFID) was established in 1997, as the successor to the Overseas Development Administration, previously part of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office . DFID's overall aim is to reduce global poverty and promote sustainable development, in particular through achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
UN Aids - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic. It leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.
UNDP - From politics to security to public health, from crime to the environment, a growing agenda of development issues can no longer be managed within the boundaries of any single nation. Global, regional and national coalitions for action are emerging centred around the United Nations' indispensable role.
UNDP graph - "see a country’s development changes" as many of the key messages of Human Development Report 2003 are brought alive in these animated graphics. The first set is a presentation highlighting a number of messages found in the Report, including:
The progress and reversals in health and income since 1960.
The tragic setbacks in development during the 1990s.
The large differences within countries, explored using data on Chinese provinces
UNICEF - UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. They have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. They are unique among world organizations, and unique among those working with the young.
VSO - VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers. Their vision is a world without poverty in which people work together to fulfil their potential.
War Child - War Child is a network of independent organisations working across the world to help children affected by war. The War Child organisation stands on the twin beliefs: that we’re not free to ignore an innocent victim’s plea for help and that children are the seed-corn of society, its future hope.
The World Bank - The World Bank Group’s mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. It is a development bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty.
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