Home Title Index Topic Index Sources Directory News Releases Sources Calendar

Development Alternatives
AlterLinks Topic Index

  1. Banking on the Grass Roots
    Cooperatives in global development

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  2. Close the IMF, Abolish Debt and End Development
    A Class Analysis of the International Debt Crisis

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    The struggle for repudiation of the debt must be organized internationally and demand not only the collective refusal of debt but cooperation in developing policies to cope with possible reprisals and to create space for the elaboration of creative alternatives to development. I am not talking about an international organization of governments, but rather of the international organization of popular struggle around the debt issue in order to limit state options and force actions in the interests of the working class.
  3. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  4. Connexions Annual Overview: Development, International
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
    the principle of `Thinking Globally, Acting Locally' can and must also be extended to acting locally on behalf of and in solidarity with those in other parts of this globe.
  5. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  6. An Examination of the Microcredit Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    An examination of the microcredit movement, its history, how it functions, and future trends.
  7. Grassroots Cells, Devil's Architects Defend Communities
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
  8. Green Technologies for Development
    Transfer, Trade and Cooperation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  9. New Internationalist
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
  10. Small is Beautiful
    A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
  11. So Much Aid, So Little Development
    Stories from Pakistan

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    An explanation of why so much international aid gets "wasted", with a focus on Pakistan.
  12. Ten Days for World Development, Study Issue, 1976
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    "Lifestyle" issue points out global realities call for a less consumer-oriented lifestyle.
  13. Toward Sustainable Communities
    Resources for Citizens and their Governments

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
  14. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
  15. Voices of Resistance to the Northern Gateway Pipeline
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The National Energy Board's Joint Review Panel (JRP) has just published its recommendation that the Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway to transport Alberta's tar sands oil to the northwest coast of British Columbia should be approved.


AlterLinks


© 2021.