| Research and essays about social, political and economic change |
Also from PRB, Beyond Six Billion. click on Population Bulletin and then 1999
Also see a review of Beyond Six Billion at http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7322/1193 This review is somewhat critical.Kevin McCarthy's
World Population Shifts.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB308/index.html
study
of
population
shifts
in
different
parts
of
the
world.
From 2000
Russia's Demographic "Crisis" http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF124/index.html A collection of articles about the current rapid changes in the Russian population, causes and consequences. From 1996.
Secretary-General's Report --- World Demographic Trends http://www.un-ngls.org/orf/update.htm "the present report provides an overview of demographic trends worldwide, for major areas and selected countries. It covers population size and growth, urbanization and city growth, population ageing, fertility and contraception, mortality and international migration." This report is from 2004, about half way down the page.
Global
Population Profile: 2002. Listed
at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/wp02.html
"This report is the latest published compendium and
analysis of data on
population, fertility, mortality, contraceptive use and related
demographic topics by the U.S. Census Bureau." Rate of growth is
slowing all over.
Demographic Research http://www.demographic-research.org/default.htm published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. "Demographic Research publishes demographic research and related material from the full range of disciplines that bear on demography"
sian Metacentre research
papers http://www.populationasia.org/index.htm
has
a
lot
of
papers
about
various
population
topics,
mainly
about pop
change
in asia, causes and consequences. As of March 2003, click on
publications,
then on research paper series. These papers are free.
Long-Term Global Demographic
Trends: Reshaping the Geopolitical
Landscape
listed at https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/index.html
Global Demographic Change: Economic Impacts and Policy
Challenges http://www.kansascityfed.org/PUBLICAT/SYMPOS/SYMMAIN.HTM
2004
symposium
papers
sponsored
by
the
Federal
Reserve
Bank
of
Kansas
City. A 2000 symposium was "Global Economic Integration:
Opportunities and Challenges"
The Demographic Transition http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/Demotrans/demtran.htm By Keith Montgomery. Brief overview of world demographic transitions, and some examples.
Globalization and
World Cities Study Group and
Network http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/
GaWC
was
initially
set
up
as
a
vehicle
for
organising
world city
research
at Loughborough University. It is in the process of developing and
expanding
into a teaching resource and a site of interest for those working in
advanced
city services in both the private and public sectors.
Center for the
Study of Globalization and
Regionalization
Working Paper Series: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/
See
research
and
then
working
papers.
Many
papers
about
globalization,
some
on specific topics, some more
general,
for example two papers from 2002 are Democratisation in East Asia,
and Explaining systemic change: The political economy of
post-communist
transformations. Two papers from 1999 are Approaching the
Global Polity by Morten Ougaard, and
Global Civil Society: Changing
the World? by Jan Aart Scholte.
Global
Transformations http://www.polity.co.uk/global/
"Polity Global Transformations text-site, devised by David Held and
Anthony
McGrew. On these pages you will find a whole host of
information
on globalization, including: researching globalization, globalization,
interviews, links to sites of related interest, an executive
summary
of the key features of globalization."
Can There be a
Global Society? http://www.gwu.edu/%7Eccps/etzioni/articles2.html
paper
by
Amitai
Etzioni
(#380),
very
brief
review
of
some
issues, e.g.,
definition
of society, will global society require global state. Other papers of
interest are there too.
Center for global studies http://www.globalcentres.org/
some
interesting
on
line
publications.
Click
on
publications,
then
see
Altered States: Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance,
listed
in
publications.
I
think
it's
completely
available on
line.
This book is at least partly about "explore the dynamics of
globalization
and discuss what makes today's globalization distinct."
Jeffery Williamson's papers on the
web http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/williamson/jwilliamworkingpapers
bunch
of
globalization
papers.
"Winners
and
losers
over
two
centuries
of
globalization",
"Globalization in Latin America before 1940" and more.
Does Globalization Affect
Growth? http://www.axel-dreher.de/
by
Axel
Dreher.
This
site
includes
data.
According
to
the
abstract,
"The
paper presents an index of globalization covering its three main
dimensions:
economic integration, social integration, and political integration.
Using
panel data for 123 countries in 1970-2000 it is analyzed empirically
whether
the overall index of globalization as well as sub-indexes constructed
to
measure the single dimensions affect economic growth. The
results show that globalization promotes growth – but not to an extent
necessary to reduce poverty on a large scale."
This site is also listed on our data page.
Dialogue on
Globalization http://www.fes.de/globalization/
This "site presents a variety of publications (of the
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
as well as its partners) ranging from short briefing papers to
in-depth-studies.
... The project "Dialogue on Globalization" is part of the
international
work of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - a German non-profit institution
committed to the principles of social democracy and with offices,
programs,
and partners in more than 100 countries." (this is from an email sent
to
me from one of their participants).
The Globalization Web Site http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/ Theories, organizations, issues, people, etc...
Sites about changes in political systems, eg, democracy, communism, conflict
The Spatial and
Temporal Diffusion of
Democracy,
1815-1995 http://www.Colorado.EDU/IBS/GAD/spacetime.html
see
especially
some
of
the
research,
such
as:
Democratizing
for
Peace.
This
article shows that reversals from democracy back toward
autoritarian forms of government in newly emerging democracies is
associated
with interstate war. Moverments toward democracy are peace
enhancing.
The paper The diffusion of democracy, 1946-94, is another
paper.
It is also available at Society for Political Methodology working
papers
site http://polmeth.wustl.edu/
in
working
papers,
in
the
1997
list.
Patterns of
Diffusion in the Third Wave of
Democracyhttp://www.nd.edu:80/~mcoppedg/crd/papscrd.htm
by
Coppedge
and
Brinks.
They
trace
out
patterns
of
diffusion
of
democracy.
Among other results, they find support for a pattern of diffusion in
which
countries tend to become more like their immediate geographic
neighbors.
Also see his class page as of October 2004 for this chapter, Defining and Measuring Democracy
Transforming
Post-Communist Political
Economies http://books.nap.edu/html/transform/contents.htm
Published by National Academy Press. Joan M. Nelson, Charles
Tilly,
and Lee Walker, Editors; Task Force on Economies in Transition,
National
Research Council. 1998. You can download entire book or
chapters.
"This ground-breaking new volume focuses on the interaction between
political,
social, and economic change in Central and Eastern Europe and the New
Independent
States. It includes a wide selection of analytic papers,
thought-provoking
essays by leading scholars in diverse fields, and an agenda for future
research.".
Read our review here. http://gsociology.icaap.org/transforming.html
(and
then
click
back
to
return
to
this
page)
Center for the
study of democracy http://www.democ.uci.edu/
especially see their publications and then papers page with papers such
as " Lessons for the "Third Wave" from the First: An Essay on
Democratization", "Democracy and its Citizens: Patterns of Political
Change" and "The Decline of Political Support in Advanced Industrial
Democracies".
Also some data.
Recent papers are now at http://escholarship.org/uc/csd
and
include
papers like Larry Diamond (April 17, 2003) "Can the Whole
World
Become Democratic? Democracy, Development, and International Policies".
Assessing the Quality of Democracy:
Freedom, Competitiveness, and
Participation
in 18 Latin American Countries http://web.rollins.edu/~dboniface/classes/pol422/research.htm
Research by David Altman and Aníbal
Pérez-Liñán.
The Global
Corruption Report http://www.transparency.org/publications/gcr
This
report
provides
an
overview
of
'the
state
of
corruption'
around
the
globe. This is from Transparency International (TI).
University
of
California
International
and
Area
Studies
digital
collection http://escholarship.org/uc/gaia
couple
of
on
line
books
about
political
change,
such as Chinese
Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation.Yang,
Mayfair Mei-hui, 2008
Cato
Journal,
An
Interdisciplinary
Journal
of
Public
Policy
Analysis
http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/index.html
see
Volume
22
Number
3,
Winter
2003
for
a
couple
of papers, such as
Abdiweli M. Ali and Hoden Said Isse.
"Determinants
of Economic Corruption: A Cross-Country Comparison" and John A. Tures,
"Economic Freedom and Conflict Reduction: Evidence from the 1970s,
1980s,
and 1990s." See these issues, Volume 25 Number 3, Fall 2005, Volume 24
Number 3, Fall 2004, with some articles about how development happens,
institutions and development, and other issues.
Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido
University http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/index-e.html
see
the
Proceedings
of
International
Symposia,
some
of
which
are
available
on line. The 2001 is http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/2001summer/2001summer-contents.html
Transformation and Diversification of Rural Societies in
Eastern Europe and Russia, and
the 1999 is "Russian Regions: Economic Growth and Environment". The
2003 is "Democracy and Market Economics in Central and Eastern
Europe."
New York Democracy Forum http://www.fpa.org/topics_info2414/topics_info_show.htm?doc_id=271309
these
are
video's
of
talks.
Especially
has
a
talk,
"Do
We Really Know
How to Promote Democracy?" by Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz
Professor of International Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins
University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Pdf's of
the talks are also available.
The Roots of Democracy http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/2913481.html
By Carles Boix, professor of political science at the University of
Chicago. This article is in Hoover Institutions Policy Review,
Feb/March 2006. "Finally, short of the path of economic modernization,
democracy can be established only through radical and violent change
imposed from abroad. ... To be sustainable, it needs considerable
resources, exceptional resoluteness, and, therefore, broad consensus at
home. Without generalized support, it ends up in failure."
Heidelberg Institute on International Conflict
Research http://www.hiik.de/index.html
has the Conflict Barometer reports showing conditions and trends in
conflict.
Journal
of Democracy
http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/
Some
articles
are
on
line
for
free,
varies
from
time
to time.
“State Building and Democratization in
Sub-Saharan Africa: Forwards, Backwards, or Together?”
Bratton, Michael, and Eric Chang. Also in Comparative Political
Studies, Vol. 39, No. 9, 1059-1083 (2006), http://cps.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/39/9/1059
Working paper available here, https://www.msu.edu/~echang/Research/research.htm
at
Dr.
Chang's
home
page.
The
key
idea
is
"the
establishment of a rule
of law—as experienced through improvements in personal security and the
popular perception that leaders respect the constitution—is critical to
building democracy."
Democracy and Human Development http://www.bu.edu/sthacker/
but
I
get
a
tracker
pop
up
when
I
go
to this page.
Past
history of democracy improves human development. This paper is by
John Gerring, Rodrigo Alfaro and Strom C. Thacker, all of whom have
additional interesting papers on their sites.
Gerardo Munck http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~munck/home/index.html
has
a
number
of
papers
about
democracy.
See
the
Research
and
Publications section. One example is “Democratic Transitions,”
The Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict
Management http://www.berghof-center.org/
especially
of
interest
is
their
Berghof
Handbook
for
Conflict
Transformation
http://www.berghof-handbook.net/
with
many
interesting
chapters,
such
as
The
Civilisation
of
Conflict:
Constructive
Pacifism as a Guiding Notion for Conflict
Transformation and Assessing the State-of-the-Art in Conflict
Transformation and many more.
Articles
from Annual Review of
Political Science, and Annual
Review
of Sociology. Only abstracts are available, unless you are
using
the internet from universities that subscribe to the Annual
Reviews.
ENDING
REVOLUTIONS AND BUILDING NEW
GOVERNMENTS
by Arthur Stinchcombe
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.polisci.2.1.49
"Revolutions
then
come
to
an
end
to
the
degree
that
political
uncertainty
is reduced by building enough bargains into a political structure that
can maintain those bargains. The paper summarizes what we know about
the
structures that can produce such decreases in uncertainty: conservative
authoritarianism, independence, occupation government, totalitarianism,
democracy, and caudillismo." This complete article appears to
be available on line.
WHAT DO WE KNOW
ABOUT DEMOCRATIZATION AFTER
TWENTY
YEARS? by Barbara Geddes
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.polisci.2.1.115
"This
essay
synthesizes
the
results
of
the
large
number
of
studies of
late–20th-century
democratization published during the last 20 years. Strong evidence
supports
the claims that democracy is more likely in more developed countries
and
that regime transitions of all kinds are more likely during economic
downturns...."
GLOBALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.159 abstract of article by Kathleen C. Schwartzman. "This review examines numerous renderings of the linkage between globalization and democratization, including: favorable climate for democracy, global economic growth, global crises, foreign intervention, hegemonic shifts, and world-system contraction."
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.polisci.2.1.91 Outlines changes in world trade and how to explain the changes.
Toward a fourth
generation of revolutionary
theory, by Jack Goldstone http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.polisci.4.1.139
from
the
abstract,
"Rather
than
try
to
develop
a
list
of the "causes"
of
revolutions, it may be more fruitful for the fourth generation of
revolutionary
theory to treat revolutions as emergent phenomena, and to start by
focusing
on factors that cement regime stability."
WHAT DOES POLITICAL ECONOMY TELL US
ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTAND VICE VERSA? Philip Keefer
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.polisci.7.012003.104846
This
essay
reviews
how
three
pillars
of
political
economycollective
action,
institutions,
and political market imperfectionshelp us answer
the following question: Why do some countries develop and not others?
Papers by
Branko Milanovic here
a
lot
of
papers
about
inequality.
Sources of Growth http://repub.eur.nl/resource/publication:7792/index.html Audretsch, David. This link is to the abstract. "The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a fundamental shift in Europe, along with the other OECD countries, is taking place. This shift is from the managed economy to the entrepreneurial economy." Can get copy of paper here.
A lot more papers about many economic topics here http://repub.eur.nl/ some on growth, likeGlobal Research
Project: Explaining Growth http://www.gdnet.org/
comprehensive research project. Click on 'activities', then on 'global
research projects'. Can't read the book here but can read
some key points.
Growth, Income
Distribution, and Poverty: A
Review
http://swopec.hhs.se/gunwpe/abs/gunwpe0032.htm "This paper reviews the
recent literature dealing with the relationships between economic
growth, income distribution, and poverty. This generally fails to find
any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent
decades. Neither does it find any systematic link from fast growth to
increasing inequality." Paper by Arne Bigsten and Jörgen
Levin.
Economic Growth
Resources http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Economics/Growth/
"These pages are designed as a resource for researchers studying
economic
growth"
Center for Social
and Demographic Analysis
Working
Papers. http://www.albany.edu/csda/workpap.html
see
Does
Economic
Inequality
Promote
Economic
Growth?
A
Cross-National
Time-Series
Analysis
by
Lawrence E. Raffalovich, University
at
Albany, SUNY. Paper number 2000-6.
The New Economy
Index http://www.neweconomyindex.org/
"In
The
New
Economy
Index,
we
provide
a
new
set
of economic indicators,
gathered from existing public and private data, to illustrate
fundamental
structural changes in the U.S. economy, to show what those changes mean
in the lives of working Americans, and to measure the nation's progress
in several key foundation areas for future economic growth." This
site is indicators, as graphs, and explanation of changes.
Professor Jeffrey
G. Williamson's
papers
on the web http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/williamson/jwilliamworkingpapers
see
his
papers:
HIER
Paper
#1855:
Real
Wages
and
Relative
Factor
Prices in the Third World Before 1940: What Do they Tell Us about the
sources
of Growth?. and NBER Paper #9161, Winners and Losers over two centuries
of globalization..
Social Science
Research Network
Economic
Growth papers http://www.ssrn.com/link/economic-growth.html
papers
about
econ
growth.
For
example,
How
Robust
Is
The
Relationship
Between
Economic Freedom And Economic Growth, JAN-EGBERT STURM and
JAKOB
DE HAAN. and Structural Change and Economic Growth, JOHN
LAITNER.
The working papers can be downloaded. For accepted papers, you
can
only see the abstract. But authors email addresses are
listed.
Specific papers listed on this page are continuously updated.
Population and
Economic Development http://econ.duke.edu/Papers/Abstracts00/abstract.00.06.html
working
paper
by Allen C. Kelley. This is a systematic review of
the major studies about population and economic development.
Raising Growth
and Investment in Sub-Saharan
Africa
- What Can be Done? http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/pdp/2000/pdp04.pdf
The
paper
is
an
IMF
Policy
Discussion
Paper,
listed
here
http://www.imf.org/external/pubind.htm
then search for title.
Finance & Development http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2006/06/index.htm
From IMF. A recent issue (March 2006) has articles about 'rethinking
growth', and 'Globalization at Work', an article about global
employment trends.
Papers on the
Strategy of Reforms http://econ-server.umd.edu/~murrell/
see research / then 'reform strategies'. several papers analyzing the
strategy of reform in transition
countries"
by peter murrell, including Evolution in Economics and in the
Economic
Reform of the Centrally Planned Economies and others.
Recent papers by Dani
Rodrik http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/drodrik/papers.html
papers
on
a variety of topics, such as "Four Simple Principles for
Democratic
Governance of Globalization", "Growth and Poverty Reduction: What Are
the
Real Questions?" and "Development Strategies for the Next
Century".
Chad Jones paper Was
an
Industrial
Revolution
Inevitable?
Economic
Growth
Over
the
Very
Long
Run
listed on
his CV page http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/chad/cv.html
along
with
other
papers.
Romain Wacziarg's
research http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/romain.wacziarg/papersum.html
includes papers such as How Democracy Affects Growth, and The Diffusion
of Development. Also includes Review of Easterly's “The Elusive Quest
for
Growth”.
USAID Forum Series on the Role of
Institutions in Promoting Economic
Growth, Forum Papers, http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/economic_growth_and_trade/eg/forum_series/index.html
These
papers
are
from
US
AID.
Papers
include
Comparative
Political
Economy
and its Relevance for Development
Policy, and New Institutional Economics and Development.
Jamus Jerome Lim's research
page http://www.jamus.name/
especially see a couple of papers, Role of State and East
Asia
in the New Economy
The Demographic Dividend: A New Perspective on the Economic
Consequences of Population Change, David E. Bloom, David Canning,
Jaypee Sevilla, MR-1274-WFHF/DLPF/RF/UNPF, 2002. This report from
Population Matters examines the debate on how population growth affects
national economies and synthesizes current research on the
topic. http://rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1274/index.html
Fault Lines in China's Economic Terrain, Charles Wolf, Jr., K. C. Yeh,
Benjamin Zycher, Nicholas Eberstadt, Sung-Ho Lee, MR-1686-NA/SRF, 2003
(Full Text). The authors consider how and by how much China's stellar
economic performance might be impaired by eight potential adversities
that China may face in the next decade. http://rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1686/index.html
Determinants Of Economic
Growth. Panel Data Approach. By: Edwin Dewan And Shajehan
Hussein http://www.rbf.gov.fj/ see the
working papers, it's Working Paper EDWP 2001-04.
from the Reserve Bank of Fiji.
Economic Freedom: The Path to African
Prosperity http://www.heritage.org/Research/Africa/hl778.cfm
paper
by
Brett
Schaefer.
CREDIT (Centre for Research in Economic Development and International
Trade) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/credit/
see
their
research
page
with
research
such
as
Urbanization,
Urban
Concentration
and
Economic Growth in Developing Countries, Why Do Rates of Convergence
Differ? A Meta-Regression Analysis. (About this question: Do
poorer countries grow faster than richer ones and, if so, at what rate
is the disparity in income between rich and poor countries narrowing
over time?), Economic Growth
and Income Inequality and Trade Liberalisation and Poverty:
The Empirical Evidence.
David Skidmore's
home page http://www.drake.edu/artsci/PolSci/personalwebpage/Skidpage.html
has
an
article
of
interest,
"
"Civil
Society,
Social
Capital
and
Economic Development." There is other stuff of interest on
the site too.
World Values
Survey http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/
This
site
describes
world
values
survey.
"This
series
is
designed
to
enable a cross national comparison of values and norms on a wide
variety
of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the
globe."
The survey included questions about topics such as economy, politics,
work,
personal finances, confidence in civil and governmental institutions,
and
a lot of other questions. Here is a report about happiness
in the world http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111725
says
happiness is related to democracy and wealthier countries.
Democracy,
Economy, and Values: Estimating a
Recursive
System. by RJ Franzese, R Inglehart, SD Ehrlich, listed at
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese/Publications.html
One
of
the
papers
from
the
World
Value
Survey,
describing
some research
about Democracy, Economy and Values as a dynamic system. A lot of
this paper seems to be about data, but some results as well. This
is included in my review page. The paper is listed near the
bottom
of the page.
Also see material from Macroeconomic Policies of Developed Democracies.
WZB discussion papers in Institutions
and Social Change http://www.wzb.eu/publikation/discussion_papers/discussion_papers_siv.en.htm
which lists papers such as Christian Welzel, Ronald Inglehart,
Hans-Dieter
Klingemann, Human Development as a General Theory of Social Change:
A Multi-Level and Cross-Cultural Perspective The
publications
page is http://www.wzb.eu/alt/iw/default.en.htm
Also see the page for the completed project
Institutions
and Social Change, at http://www.wzb.eu/alt/iw/default.en.htm
for a final report (in German)
National Pride: A
Cross-national Analysis http://www.issp.org/public.shtml
by Tom Smith and Lars Jarkko. "This paper examines the factors
that
contribute to national pride ... Specifically, it discusses 1) the
ranking
of countries on national pride, 2) the ranking of pride in 10
specific
domains, 3) the ranking of countries on each of the 10 specific domains
and how these rankings relate to a) objective measures of achievements
and b) how the ranking of specific domains deviate from a country's
overall
or average ranking across domains, 4) changes over time in national
pride,
and 5) within country difference by gender, ethnicity, and
age/cohorts."
This is a paper from the International Social Survey Programme, at http://www.issp.org/
The
above
is
in
word.
Relatedly, see Dr. Ed Diener's site
http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~ediener/
and look at one paper on line, Diener, E., & Oishi, S.
(2003). Are Scandinavians happier than Asians? Issues in comparing
nations on subjective well-being. Other papers about wellbeing
are there too.
The Press Freedom Survey http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=16
from
the
freedom
house.
Annual
survey
from
1994.
Also
includes
reports
on changes in freedoms.
International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS). http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2547&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html A recent issue (Feb 2004) was about Multilingualism on the Internet. Another more recent issue is Democracy and Power-sharing in Multi-National States, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2006.
ESRC Centre for Research on
Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) http://www.cresc.ac.uk/
has
some
papers
such
as
"Social
Movements
and
Social
Change"
and
others. More to come. The purpose of the centre is to "develop a
broad, empirically focused account of cultural change and its economic,
social and political implications".
The state of food insecurity in
the world http://www.fao.org/SOF/sofi/index_en.htm
in
2005
this
was
"Eradicating
world
hunger
-
Key
to
achieving the
Millennium Development Goals". In 2006, it was "Eradicating world
hunger - taking stock ten years after the World Food Summit" WORLD DATABASE OF HAPPINESS
http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/
This
is
"an
ongoing
register
of
scientific
research
on
subjective
appreciation
of life. It
brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and
provides a basis for meta-analytical studies." Has a bibliography
by subject of research about happiness. Also links to the journal
Journal of Happiness Studies. In January 2010, I could see the
articles. See the journals page of this website. For Dr.
Veenhoven's research see http://www2.eur.nl/fsw/research/veenhoven/
click
on publications The Global Course of the
Information
Revolution: Recurring Themes and
Regional Variations, Richard O. Hundley, Robert H. Anderson, Tora K.
Bikson, C. Richard Neu, MR-1680-NIC, 2003 (Full Text). Projects the
impact of information technology and the "information revolution" on
areas across the globe for the next 10 to 15 years. http://rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1680/ Society at a glance http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_34637_2671576_1_1_1_37419,00.html
or
NOVA World in
the Balance http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/
interviews,
demonstrations,
essays,
etc.,
on
changing
world
topics. Beyond Economic
Growth http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/beyond/beyond.htm
"This
book
is
designed
to
help
readers
broaden
their
knowledge
of
global
issues, gain insight into their country's situation in the global
context,
and understand the problems of sustainable development." There
are
chapters on development, world population growth, economic development,
income inequality, poverty, education, health and longevity,
urbanization,
globalization, foreign aid, and climate change. Also includes
data
tables.
Economic History Congress XII,
2002. http://eh.net/XIIICongress/cd/home.htm
has
a
lot
of
papers
on
line.
For
example
this
session, Historical
views
on the recent structural changes in the world economy, 1980-2000,
at
http://eh.net/XIIICongress/cd/programme-sessions-detail1.htm
includes
papers
such
as
"Changes
in
Central
and
Eastern
Europe
in the
last
quarter of the 20th century", and "The Middle East and North Africa in
the era of globalization, 1980-2000." All the sessions are listed
here http://eh.net/XIIICongress/cd/programme-sessions.htm
global issues
http://www.globalissues.org/
brief summaries of bunches of world change topics, such
as poverty,
free
trade and globalization, human rights, population, global warming,
geopolitics,
along with links. Kind of like our social change site.
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FAO has two reports of interest
SOFA: The State of Food and
Agriculture http://www.fao.org/es/esa/en/pubs_sofa.htm
in
2005
this
was
"Agricultural
trade
and
poverty:
Can
trade
work for
the poor?"
Happiness the World Over http://www.springerlink.com/content/02881v15644n8734/
article
by Rita Simon and Andrew Bennett. Not free but says
happiness is related to many material factors of life.
Also see our page on Future http://gsociology.icaap.org/future.html
some
of
the
reports
address
technological
change
Broadband Penetration Over Time: Data Visualisation with Google Motion
Chart, Gapminder and Excel
http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/broadband-penetration-over-time-data-visualisation-with-google-motion-chart-gapminder-and-excel/
interesting
visualization
of
change
in
broadband.
The Global Technology Revolution 2020,
Bio/Nano/Materials/Information
Trends, Drivers, Barriers, and Social Implications http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG475/
(2006)
"In
2020,
areas
of
particular
importance
for
technology
trends
will
include biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials technology, and
information technology." Which countries will be able to do these
innovations, and which won't.
Also see this 2001 report The Global Technology Revolution,
Bio/Nano/Materials Trends and Their Synergies with Information
Technology by 2015 http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1307/index.html
Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies:
International Workshop Proceedings: http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12185
a
bunch
of
scientists
were
gathered
"to
discuss
issues
concerning
the
role of science in the development of modern societies."
The Information Revolution in Asia,
Nina Hachigian and Lily Wu,
MR-1719-NIC, 2003 (Full Text). This report discusses the
information revolution in Asia and its likely course over the next five
to ten years. http://rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1719/index.html
The Information Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa, Grey
Burkhart and Susan Older, MR-1653-NIC, 2003 (Full Text). Explores the
future of the information revolution in the countries of the Middle
East and North Africa. http://rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1653/index.html
Web Characterization. http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/archive/wcp/
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. One of
their publications is "Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web: 1998
- 2002".
Globalization, Transnational Communication and the
Internet http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=3999&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
from
the
International
Journal
on
Multicultural
Societies
(IJMS).
Feb
2004.
Computers and Social Change http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/perrolle/
by
Judith
Perrolle,
social
impact
of
computers,
etc.
IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/emission/index.htm
One
main
interest
in
this
book
is
Chapter
3:
Scenario
Driving
Forces, http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/emission/049.htm
because
this
has
tables
on
world
and
regional
change
in
population, GDP
growth, energy use, and other data, and reviews of growth.
Back to top
General
reports on change, multi topic
http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_34637_2671576_1_1_1_1,00.html
"How
are
OECD
societies
progressing?
How
effective
are
their
actions
in
promoting social progress? Society at a Glance provides a basis for
addressing these twin questions. ... This 2009 edition includes a wide
range of information on social issues – such as demography and family
characteristics, employment and unemployment, poverty and inequality,
social and health care expenditure, and work and life satisfaction –as
well as a guide to help readers understand the structure of OECD social
indicators." Includes data for OECD countries.
USAID has a whole lot of
reports http://www.usaid.gov/index.html
on a while bunch of topics like those mentioned above. Go
to 'our work' or 'locations'. Some other reports are "Democracy and
Governance: A Conceptual Framework", "Handbook of Democracy and
Governance Program Indicators", and so many more.
International Labor Organization http://www.ilo.org/global/lang--en/index.htm
has free on line books, articles, etc.. Some books include The new
offshoring of jobs
and global development by Gary Gereffi and Civil Society, Participatory
Governance and Decent Work Objectives: The case of South Africa by
Konstantinos Papadakis, among others.
Relationship among health,
politics, economy, etc
Structure, (governance) and health: an unsolicited response
Daniel D Reidpath and Pascale Allotey, BMC Int Health Hum Rights. 2006;
6: 12. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1584251/
Governance
was
found
to
be
significantly correlated with population
health, as were GDP per capita, and access to improved water. They were
also found to be significantly correlated with each other.
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World Global Trends http://t21.ca/
has summaries of a variety of topics, such as human rights, wars and
conflicts, education, etc. This is an experimental site, not yet fully
developed.
Technology and Social Change Research Centre
http://chimeraweb.essex.ac.uk/tasc/ This group
"focuses on studying the interactions between technology and social
change from an empirical social science perspective." Some of
their publications (working papers) are available on line. For
example, in the working papers there is this paper: Anderson, B. and
Stoneman, P., (2007) Predicting the socio-technical future (and other
myths).