World Development book links: Millennium Development Goals
The links to articles from newspaper and magazine web sites that are given below are intended as a source of current information that will help research into development issues and they could also be used for the article analysis coursework that is part of the World Development A level course. No list is definitive and the intention is to develop this gradually as a resource for anybody interested in global development.
The articles are loosely categorized using the general headings in the text book but their content is often very broad.
A Guardian article about Indian aid to Africa to help achieve MDG goals and a comparison with Chinese aid to the same region- http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/may/25/india-pledges-5bn-to-help-african-states-meet-mdgs
Education
http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Progress_for_Children-No.9_EN_081710.pdf - A 2010 UNICEF report with information about the progress made in MDGs focusing on child related issues such as universal primary education, child mortality and female empowerment.
http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/education/facts_figures.html - a good summary of the benefits of primary education
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The rise of red-robed Islamophobia in Sri Lanka
2013-04-1526 Lewis GarlandAnti-Muslim fervour is rife – yet is being ignored by the authorities, says Lewis Garland.
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Britain moves a step closer to combating caste
2013-04-2624 Mari Marcel ThekaekaraMari Marcel Thekaekara congratulates the country’s Dalit community on finally winning legal protection against discrimination.
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Thatcher is gone but her legacy lives
2013-04-0822 Alan Hughes‘The Wicked Witch is dead’ but although he’s celebrating, Alan Hughes urges us to fight on against everything she stood for.
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Argument: Should prostitution be legalized?
2013-04-0121 HASH(0x80606f798) New Internationalist EditorialArgument: Should prostitution be legalized?
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Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
2013-05-0118 HASH(0x803ebc630) New Internationalist EditorialArgument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
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