Economy and Financial Affairs
NGO sites
African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
AERC is devoted to policy research and training. Its principal objective is to strengthen local capacity for conducting independent, rigorous inquiry into problems pertinent to the management of economies in sub-Saharan Africa.
African Forum and Network on Debt and Development - AFRODAD
Organisation working on solutions to Africa’s mounting debt problem and its negative impact on development.
Anti-Privatization Forum (APF)
The APF’s role is to unite struggles against privatisation in the workplace and community. It is open to any organisation or individual opposed to privatisation. South Africa.
Aspects of India's Economy
A journal which aims to explain day-to-day issues of Indian economic life. It is published by the Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.). India.
BanglaPraxis
BanglaPraxis is an activist organization in Bangladesh, working on IFIs, ecology (rivers), water privatization and mining.
Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF)
Independent not-for-profit non-governmental research institute for capacity building in economic and social policy analysis. The main objective of ESRF is to build and strengthen human and institutional capabilities in economic and social policy analysis and decision-making and to enhance the understanding of policy options within the Government, public sector, donor community and in the growing national non-governmental sector mainly, but not only in Tanzania.
Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI)
EPRI supports the development of economic policy options that promote economic growth and social equity in South Africa. The institute is committed to analysing South Africa's socio-economic situation and constructing sustainable economic polices that foster job creation and redistribution while supporting sustained economic growth and macroeconomic stability. South Africa.
Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey - ERF
ERF’s mission is to provide an institutional mechanism to initiate and fund policy-relevant economic research, to disseminate the results of research activity to scholars, policymakers, and the business community, and to function as a resource base for researchers through its databank and documentation library.
Focus on the Global South
Focus aims to consciously and consistently articulate, link and develop greater coherence between local community-based and national, regional and global paradigms of change. Thailand.
IFIs Latin American MonitoR
This initiative aims at contributing to the Latin American and global IFI campaigns for reform of the Bretton Woods institutions by translating key information, producing and disseminating analysis and providing a point of access to research results, opinions and campaigning activities, thus promoting dialogue and collaboration between key actors.
India Resource Center
India Resource Center works to support anti-corporate globalization movements in India. They provide information on transnational corporations to Indian movements. They also educate and mobilize key constituencies in the US and other countries to take action in support of campaigns in India.
Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD)
The Institute for Global Dialogue is an independent South African non-governmental organisation that provides analysis on the changing global environment and its impact on South Africa for the benefit of government and civil society.
International Development Economic Associates (IDEAs)
International network of progressive economists engaged in the teaching, research and utilization of development economics.
International Labour Resource and Information Group (ILRIG)
ILRIG aims to participate in building the capacity of South African trade unions and other community-based organizations to respond to the challenges of globalization.
Jubilee South
International Peoples' Tribunal on the Debt.
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Selected news
Economy and Financial Affairs - Fri Jun 27 2008
More debt relief in sight for poorest nations
Anti-debt campaigners say legislation passed by a U.S. Congressional committee this week that would expand debt cancellations to an additional 25 poor nations could prove effective in fighting poverty, stopping environmental degradation and easing the traditional strict economic conditions that accompanied loans and often led to economic chaos.
Source: IPS

Social Development /Economy and Financial Affairs - Mon Jun 23 2008
Civil society blames World Bank, IMF and WTO
The food crisis being experienced in Africa is due to the failure of three decades of market deregulation by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation's agricultural sector development model, a group of international NGOs have stated.
Source: The EastAfrican

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Gender in economics - Fri Jun 27 2008
The Women’s Working Group on the FfD commits itself to keep fully engaged in all follow-up processes and to build bridges between commitments and actions on development, trade, finance, debt and systemic issues and women’s rights and gender equality commitment and goals which are consistent with the holistic agenda of the Monterrey Consensus
Fuente: http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/6793.html

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