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From: "ID21 News" <id21news@ids.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 20:55:19 +0000

Welcome to ID21: the new Development Research reporting service

Academics, consultants and NGOs based in the UK produce a constant
stream of development research findings. Yet all too often, those who
make or implement development policy are unaware of this new
information and its policy implications.  Recent developments in
information technologies can help to bridge this knowledge gap. The UK
Department for International Development is backing an Internet-based
system which links development research and researchers directly to
policymakers and development practitioners around the world through a
new website. Hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, the
initiative is known as ID21 - or Information for Development in the
21st Century.  Its key feature is a searchable online collection of
short, one-page (500-word) digests of the latest social and economic
research studies across 30 key topic fields.

ID21 is now online and can be found at:

http://www.ids.ac.uk/id21  or  http://www.id21.org

But many users around the world have only slow or intermittent
Internet access and are therefore unable to browse the World-Wide Web
as freely as they would like.  Other users simply prefer email.  To
cater for these users we have created an email newsletter called
ID21NEWS.

ID21NEWS brings you regular updates of the latest research findings
which have been added to the ID21 collection.  A short summary tells
you about each study and a clickable web-link takes you directly to
the full text of the digest on the web, thereby saving you from
navigating a series of web pages.  We are currently developing a
system to enable you to request each digest automatically via email.
This should become available later this year.


How to subscribe to ID21NEWS

Simply send a blank email message to: id21news@ids.ac.uk
In the subject field include the words: subscribe id21news

(NB: to unsubscribe, follow the same procedure but substituting the
word "unsubscribe" in place of "subscribe".)


We hope you will e-mail us at id21@sussex.ac.uk  to let us know if you
like ID21 or if you have practical suggestions for making our online
services more useful or accessible to you in the future.  And please
forward this message to colleagues who may also be interested in our
service.

The ID21 team will also continue to produce the established research
digest Insights, which now also appears on the ID21 Web-site.  If you
wish to be put on the mailing list for the paper version of Insights
please email us.


Alistair Scott
Internet Coordinator
ID21


PS: Here is a sample issue of id21News:

*** ID21News Issue No.1 May 11th 1998 ***

Latest News
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Debt delay under fire

As the G8 club of leading Industrial Nations prepares to meet this
week in Birmingham, its UK hosts are being urged to push for reforms
to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative.

The initiative was launched in 1996 to help countries cope with
crippling external debt burdens. But one and a half years on,
practically all would-be beneficiaries are still waiting to receive
effective assistance. Veteran economist Professor Sir Hans Singer, a
Fellow at Sussex-based development think-tank, the Institute of
Development Studies, has called for 'comprehensive reforms'.

The UK will table simpler and quicker inclusion procedures during this
week's talks, and will also call for bigger contributions from the
World Bank and the IMF to the HIPC process. Singer backs these moves
but he sees more fundamental flaws in the pact.

'I want to see more scope for heavily indebted countries, creditor
countries and multilateral agencies to work as partners towards a
solution which is sustainable both financially and in terms of laying
a sound basis for all-round development', he comments.

******

New Entries in the ID21 Online Collection:
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Exploitation or enterprise: which direction now for Vietnam's tourism
industry? by Trish Nicholson

Strategies individuals employ to gain participation in tourism
development are limited by their circumstances. For those with some
resources, business strategies can develop sustainable small
enterprise. But the poor may have no option but to adopt survival
strategies, which can lead to exploitation and further poverty in the
longer term. Building on previous research in the Philippines,
independent research consultant Trish Nicholson reports on case
studies in Vietnam and suggests ways to increase equity and
sustainability in tourism development.

http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/id21/static/7cTN2.htm


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The sustainable face of forest agriculture: safeguarding the
intricacies of Tawahka farming practices by Paul House - Rural
Development Forestry Network, ODI, UK

Indigenous peoples such as the Tawahka in Honduras have been
practising sustainable agriculture on tropical forest lands for
thousands of years. Central to their agricultural harvesting practices
is an holistic concept of the 'forest'. By applying it, they have
successfully integrated a rich assortment of crops with differing soil
types and seasonal variations in rainfall with degrading the forest
environment. Now socio-economic pressures are forcing the Tawahka to
defend their lands' by seeking protected reserve status. Comparative
analysis of the Tawahka's farm management and coping strategies
features in a recent Overseas Development Institute report on studies
by a University of Reading ethnobotanist.

http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/id21/static/2cRM5.htm


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Getting cities to work: how growth could curb urban poverty in India
by P. Amis - International Development Department (IDD), UK

Urban poverty alleviation programmes tend to be narrowly focused,
either on promoting small businesses, or improving the local
environment. Studies of anti-poverty strategies in India's cities have
rarely been linked to more general thinking about the development
process. As a result, policymakers have failed to tackle the most
commanding features of urban poverty in India: casual, irregular
employment, the gender dimensions of poverty and the vulnerability of
households to shocks and setbacks. All are outcomes of development
processes. Poverty needs tackling in the medium term and at municipal
level, primarily through stronger and more participatory city
institutions which can boost economic development and basic social
services.

http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/id21/static/3bNH1.htm


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Do poor people need more loans?
by S. Johnson and B. Rogaly - Centre for Development Studies,
University of Bath, UK, School of Development Studies, UEA, UK

Acclaimed as a magical solution to poverty in the 1990s, the success
of micro-credit programmes like that of the Grameen Bank has spawned
numerous imitators. But do the poor really need more credit? Are NGOs
non-governmental organisations) best placed to offer such services?
And does credit always have the desired and expected positive impact
on poverty and women's lives? This book says that those considering
getting involved need to carry out detailed background research into
the needs of poor people for financial services to support their
livelihoods and to consider their own organisations capacities before
starting work.

http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/id21/static/1bSJ1.htm


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ID21News Issue No.1 Monday May 11th 1998
Created by the ID21 Online Team:
Robert Lamb - Senior Editor
Alistair Scott - Internet Coordinator
Fiona Power - Information Assistant
http://www.ids.ac.uk/id21 or http://www.id21.org
ID21 is enabled by the UK Department for International Development and
hosted by the Institute of Development Studies at the University of
Sussex If you have any problems or queries contact us at:
id21@ids.ac.uk

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