Social Work: Global Practice  Tags: social_work public_policy human_rights humanitarian_aid refugees  

From the World Resources Institute, environmental information by topic and country

Links to the work of all UN and related agencies and their work on climate change.

Highlights food security issues.

International policy research institute and non governmental body working for more sustainable and equitable global development.

A searchable database of USAID reports and documents on development programs throughout the world.

Includes a searchable and browseable database of development projects as well as individual country gateways, news, data and statistics.

Organized by region.

The gateway to development information.

The database includes country level and regional analyses of economic data on foreign investment codes, taxes, tariffs, banking regulations, monetary policy, black markets, and more.

From Sussex, UK, the Institute is a leading center on International Development studies.

A searchable database of articles and case studies.

from the World Bank.

A global civil society organisation dedicated to fighting corruption.

A well organized and searchable site with excellent information (including the Human Development Report, free and downloadable).

An excellent source for data, research and publications, many of which are available online in pdf format.

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015.

This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

Track progress toward meeting the MDGs with interactive mapping and country profiles.