- Abandon Affluence
Resource Type: Book
This work reviews the most recent evidence on major global problems, examining resource and energy scarcity, environmental destruction, Third World underdevelopment, international conflict, and the deteriorating quality of life. The author argues these problems are ultimately generated by the West's commitment to affluence and growth inherent in its economic system. Only fundamental social change, not technical solutions, can provide the solution.
- Africa
Perspectives on Peace and Development
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The African continent is today riven by a variety of conflicts that threaten not only human rights and social order, but also prospects for development and even the sovereignty of African states, In this volume, leading African scholars to confront the issues that peace studies in an African context raise. Peace is considered in the light of continuing struggles for democracy and social rights.
- Against the Grain
The Dilemma of Project Food Aid
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Jackson and Eade critique food aid programs as ineffective and potentially damaging to developing nations. The authors argue for substantially reduced food aid programs and for their better administration.
- Aid and Development in Southern Africa
Evaluating a Participatory Learning Process
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Critics have argued that, instead of helping Africans to achieve greater self-reliance, aid has often increased their dependence and vulnerability to forces over which they exercise no control. This book provides concrete evidence that a participatory methodology not only provides donor agencies with a better insight into the workings of projects they aid, but also strengthens grassroots movements and national capacity to use aid more effectively.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- CHF
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- The Creation of World Poverty
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Hayter challenges the assumption that the West is 'helping' the rest of the world to develop. Far from rescuing the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America from their supposed backwardness, the rich countries have accumulated vast wealth at their expense.
- Debt Bondage Or Self-Reliance
A Popular Perspective on the Global Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
Describes the effects of international debt on workers, the unemployed, and peasants who neither asked for or benefit from such debt. It describes the growing number of people's movements in Canada and developing nations who are struggling against austerity measures.
- Food 2000
Global Policies for Sustainable Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
World food production is characterized by unsaleable surpluses in Europe and North America, alongside mass hunger in the Third World. This report to the WCED argues this pattern is ecologically destructive and morally unacceptable and that the loss of cropland, forests and fertility is not inevitable. It proposes solutions to meet the growing demand for food, and to improve the environment in areas lost to agricultural production.
- Keeping the Rabble in Line
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
- The Making of the Modern World
An Introductory History
Resource Type: Book
This book's global approach to world history puts the major political, economic and social transformations of the past hundred years into context. Focusing on the growth and transformation of capitalism as a world system, and its accompanying dialectic of uneven development, Dr. Robertson shows how the Western industrial powers and the underdeveloped Third World form a single continuum of change.
- Migrants' billions put aid in the shade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Money transfers from workers abroad to family back home have tripled in a decade and are three times larger than global aid budgets.
- Modernization and Development
The Search for Alternative Paradigms
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Taking as his starting point the peculiarly Western origins of the modernization notion, and the failures of development it has inspired in practice, the author argues that an alternative development paradigm can no longer take the narrow goal of economic growth as its primary objective. Its usefulness as a guide to the new thinking about development taking place in the Third World is further enhanced by the extensive and thematically organized bibliography.
- Odious Debts
Loose Lending, Corruption and the Thirld World's Environmental Legacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- On Transforming Africa
Discourse with Africa's Leaders
Resource Type: Book
Hadjor believes that people have stopped asking questions about Africa. The depth of Africa's crisis seems to evoke passivity rather than serious discussion about solutions. But Hadjor argues that with Africa on the verge of a historic disaster, silence would be criminal. On Transforming Africa attempts to provide an explanation of the failures of the past and to force embarrassing issues out into the open.
- A Political Economy of the African Crisis
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The economies of almost all African countries are in a state of crisis, and in some cases actual disintegration. This is a crisis not of natural disasters, but of human making, and in dramatic detail, Professor Onimode shows how this is now reflected in African countries' contracting economies, soaring unemployment, mounting external debts, and periodic outbreaks of famine. He examines the role of multinational corporations, the export of capital, and class and economic distortions.
- The Socialist Register 1971
Volume 8: A survey of movements and ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1971
- Socialist Register 1996
Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1996
- Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
Resource Type: Book
- What is the New International Economic Order?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Overview and critique of the New International Economic Order.
- The Wheat Trap
Bread and Underdevelopment in Nigeria
Resource Type: Book
This book examines how bread, introduced as a luxury in colonial Nigeria, has become the cheapest staple food, and how Nigeria is now caught in a "wheat trap": the need to import increasing quantities of the grain, but - with failing oil revenues - a declining ability to finance them. The authors examine the oil-boom policy of unrestricted food imports and its effects on domestic food production.
- Women in Development
A Resource Guide for Organization and Action
Resource Type: Book
This guide offers an exploration of the relationship between women and multinationals, rural development, health, education, migration, etc. It presents concrete tools for activists and directs readers to those groups and programs that are making a difference.
- The World Crisis
Its Economic and Social Impact on the Underdeveloped
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A reissue of the original edition published in Havana in 1983 under the title: "The World Economic and Social Crisis."
- World Debt: Who is to Pay?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
The solution of the debt crisis cannot lie in reducing interest rates or juggling exchange rates. As this book shows, merely servicing the swelling mountain of debt means a relentless increase in the physical resources Third World countries must export to the West. This book explores the responsibility of the creditors for this situation, as well as that of the debtors.
- The World Steel Industry
Dynamics of Decline
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
This book covers the profound changes undergone by the world steel industry since the mid-1970s oil price rise. Faysal Yachir combines technological explanation, economic argument and awareness of the class implications of the changes in the global steel industry to throw light on what is happening to the world economy. His analysis raises questions about the future of traditional manufacturing sectors, and explores the prospects for Third World countries of developing their own industries.
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