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Part 3: Dynamics

Chapter 6: Trade

• WTO http://www.wto.org (official site of World Trade Organization) UNCTAD
• thttp://unctad.org/en/Pages/Home.aspx (official site of UN Conference on Trade and Development)
• Office of the US Trade Represnetative: http://www.ustr.gov (US government office handling international trade issues)
• Fair trade International http://www.fairtrade.net (NGO promoting Fair Traid)
• International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development: http://ictsd.org (NGO providing information on international trade issues)
• International Chamber of Commerce: http://www.iccwbo.org (NGO representing interests of international business)
• Consumers International: http://www.consumersinternational.org (NGO working on behalf of consumer interests)
• CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/
• CATO Institute: http://www.cato.org/research/trade-policy (Conservative think tank on trade issues)

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Chapter 7: Production

• World Investment and Political Risk https://www.miga.org/sites/default/files/archive/Documents/WIPR13.pdf (Latest MIGA Report)
• UNCTAD: World Investment Report 2019 https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2019_en.pdf
• Global Production http://www.global-production.com/index.htm (consultant rankings of countries FDI environment)
• Competitiveness Report http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2019.pdf
  (World Economic Forum: The Global Competitiveness Report 2019)
• Chicago Tribune ‘McDonald’s Food You Can’t Get Here’ (2012): http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-mcdonalds-food-around-the-world-photogallery.html
• OECD 'Foreign Direct Investment: Main Aggregates' www.oecd-ilibrary.org/content/data/data-00338-en
• ILO: ‘Export Processing Zones Growing Steadily’ www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_007997/lang--en/index.htm

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Chapter 8: Finance

• IMF http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm (Official site of the International Monetary Fund)
• BIS http://www.bis.org (Official site for Bank of International Settlements)
• Attac http://www.attac.org/en (NGO working on taxing financial transactions)
• Grameen Bank http://www.grameen-info.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=8&Itemid=170
  (Original microcredit bank)
• Consultative Group to Assist the Poor - http://www.cgap.org/ (Main international policy group promoting microfinance and financial inclusion)
• Microfinance Gateway - http://www.microfinancegateway.org/ (Operated by CGAP, major database of publications on microfinance)
• Tax Justice Network - http://www.taxjustice.net/ (NGO working on tax avoidance)
• Global Financial Integrity - http://www.gfintegrity.org/ (NGO working on illicit financial flows)
• Center for Financial Stability - http://www.centerforfinancialstability.org/index.php (Think tank on financial regulation)
• CNN Money: www.money.cnn.com
• Americans for Financial Reform - http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/ (American NGO advocating for financial sector regulation)
• UNICEF: "The Progress of Nations 1999" www.unicef.org/pon99/pon99_5.pdf (Article on the effects of national debt on children)

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Chapter 9: Labour

• International Labour Organization http://www.ilo.org/global/lang--en/index.htm
  (official site of International Labour Organization)
• ITUC http://www.ituc-csi.org (main international trade union body)ARMC http://www.amrc.org.hk (Hong kong NGO working on Asian labour issues)
• Labour Start http://www.labourstart.org (News on trade union issues around the world)
• Anti-Slavery International http://www.antislavery.org/english/ (NGO campaigning against modern slavery)
• Women Working Worldwide http://www.women-ww.org (NGO working on women’s labour issues)
• Southern Initiative on Globalization and Trade Union Rights, http://www.sigtur.com (alliance of mainly southern trade unions)
• Labordoc - http://labordoc.ilo.org/?ln=en (Website for the ILO’s library, thousands of publications from the ILO and other organizations on labour issues, most available free online)
• China Labour Bulletin - http://www.clb.org.hk/ (Hong Kong-based NGO publishing reports and information about labour issues in China)
• Guardian: ‘The Future of Greece Rests on a Phone Call’ www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/18/greece-debt-phone-call
• NY Times: ‘Electronic Giant Vowing Reforms in China Plants’ www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/business/apple-supplier-in-china-pledges-changes-in-working-conditions.html?emc=eta1
• World Inequality Report 2018: https://wir2018.wid.world

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Chapter 10: Gender

• UN Women http://www.unwomen.org
  (Official site of UN Womens’ organization)
• AWID http://www.awid.org (women and development NGO network)
• World Economic Forum – Global Gender Gap Report 2020: https://www.weforum.org/reports/gender-gap-2020-report-100-years-pay-equality
• WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment, Empowering and Organizing) - http://wiego.org/ NGO working on women in the informal economy
• Economist: "The (2006) ‘A Guide to Womenomics: The Future of the World Lies Increasingly in Female Hands’" www.economist.com/node/6802551
• ILO (A Quantum Leap for Gender Equality): https://www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/WCMS_674831/lang--en/index.htm
• UNFPA – (State of the World Population 2019) http://www.unfpa.org/swp/

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Chapter 11: Development

• World Bank http://www.worldbank.org (Official site of World Bank Group)
• UNDP http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home.html (Official site of UN Development Programme)
• UNICEF http://www.unicef.org (Offical site of UN Children’s Fund)
• Third World Network http://twnside.org.sg (A southern based NGO working on development issues)
• Oxfam http://www.oxfam.org.uk (A northern based NGO working on development issues)
• South Centre http://www.southcentre.org (Think tank created by developing country governments)
• SDGs - https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs (Official UN website on SDGs)
• World Bank: Data on Heavily Indebted Countries: https://data.worldbank.org/region/heavily-indebted-poor-countries-hipc
• UNCTAD: https://unctad.org (Official site of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)

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Chapter 12: Environment

• United Nations Environment Programme https://www.unenvironment.org
• International Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch (latest on climate change science)
• One Planet Living https://www.bioregional.com/one-planet-living
• Carbon footprint calculator http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/index.htm
  (Nature Conservatory’s carbon footprint calculator)
• Greenpeace https://www.greenpeace.org/international/ (Environmental NGO)
• Biodiversity Report https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/ipbes_7_10_add.1_en_1.pdf (Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services)

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Chapter 13: Ideas

• Nobel Prize http://www.nobelprize.org (official site of Noble Prize
• Intelectual Property Watch http://www.ip-watch.org/about (news stories on IPR issues)
• ETC http://www.etcgroup.org/issues/patents-biopiracy (NGO working on biopiracy)
• WikiLeaks http://wikileaks.org
• ICT statistics database: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/default.aspx
• Project Syndicate: ‘The Phony Attack on Climate Science’ (2010) www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-phony-attack-on-climate-science

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Chapter 14: Security

• Interpol http://www.interpol.int (International Police Organization)
• SIPRI: https://www.sipri.org/research/armaments-and-disarmament/dual–use-and-arms-trade-control (an independent resource on global security issues)
• World Health Organization http://www.who.int/csr/en/ (WHO’s Global ALert and Response page for epidemics) Food and Agricultural Organization http://www.fao.org/index_en.htm (UN group delaing with food security issues)
• La Via Campesina –. http://viacampesina.org/en/ (world peasant organization working on food security issues and rights of small farmers)
• OECD - https://www.oecd.org/ctp/crime/about-tax-and-crime.htm (information on tax crimes and illicit flows)
• UN Office on Drugs and Crime - https://www.unodc.org/ (Division of the UN focused on transnational crime)
• UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
  www.unodc.org/documents/treaties/UNTOC/Publications/TOC Convention/TOCebook-e.pdf

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Chapter 15: Governance

• UN Global Compact http://www.unglobalcompact.org (official site of Global Compact)
• G-20 http://www.g20.org (official site of G-20 countries)
• European Union http://europa.eu/index_en.htm (official site of the European Union)
• BRICS Summit: http://brics2019.itamaraty.gov.br/en/about-brics/previous-summits (List of BRICS summits 2019-2018)
• World Economic Forum http://www.weforum.org (gathering or world elite)
• World Social Forum: http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/index.php?cd_language=2 (gathering of orld social movements)
• Transparency International http://www.transparency.org (Anti-corruption NGO)
• Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org (human rights NGO)
• BRICS Information Centre http://www.brics.utoronto.ca/ (Online collection of official documents, media reports, academic research etc. on the BRICS Organization, operated by a team at U of T)
• The BRICS Post http://thebricspost.com/ (News aggregator website focusing on the BRICS countries)

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