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  1. 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.
  2. Aga Khan Foundation Canada
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    Resource Type: Organization
  3. 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.
  4. Antigua and Barbuda Consulate General
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    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
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    Resource Type: Organization
  6. The AT Reader
    Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
  7. Bangladesh: Of Disasters and a Disastrous Development
    Resource Type: Article
    Dispossession, disparities in land distribution, and inappropriate development strategies in Bangladesh.
  8. Banking on the Grass Roots
    Cooperatives in global development

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  9. Basics and Tools
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1987
  10. The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
    A Guide to Selected Resources

    Resource Type: Article
  11. Canadian Feed The Children
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    Resource Type: Organization
  12. 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.
  13. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  14. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  15. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  16. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  17. CHF
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    Resource Type: Organization
  18. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  19. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  20. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  21. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  22. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  23. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  24. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  25. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  26. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  27. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  28. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  29. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  30. 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.
  31. CUSO-VSO
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    Resource Type: Organization
  32. Development Theory in Transition
    The Dependency Debate and Beyond: Third World Responses

    Resource Type: Book
    This book is an outline of development theory since 1945, and emphasizes the importance of Dependency Theory as a catalyst in forming more relevant and less ethnocentric approaches. It is also the story of the rise to intellectual hegemony of a whole generation of Latin American, Caribbean, African and Indian political economists. This book is a fascinating history of development theory from a Third World perspective.
  33. 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.
  34. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
  35. International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
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    Resource Type: Organization
  36. 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.
  37. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  38. Mass Communications and American Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    An in-depth look at international and domestic media, and the effect of capitalism on mass communications.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. The North-South Institute
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    Resource Type: Organization
  42. Le Nouvel Ordre Economique International
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1975
    Une vue d'ensemble du "nouvel ordre economique international."
  43. Odious Debts
    Loose Lending, Corruption and the Thirld World's Environmental Legacy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  44. Our Common Future
    A Reader's Guide

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Explains the concept of sustainable development, presses the necessity of a more equitable international economic system, and lays bare the links between trade, environment, and development.
  45. Our Common Future: A Reader's Guide
    The Brundtland Report Explained

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    This beautifully illustrated work is a readable account of the world's development issues, as culled from the "Brundtland Report". The message that new sources of money must be found to support the pursuit of sustainable development becomes much more digestable through the beautiful photographs.
  46. OXFAM Canada
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    Resource Type: Organization
  47. Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment
    Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    This work looks at the problem of overpoplulation and the environment.
  48. Reflections on the 7th Special Session of the U.N. General Assemly
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1975
    Overview and critique of the U.N. conference dealing with the New International Economic Order.
  49. Refugees and Development in Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    This book provides a detailed analysis based on extensive case studies of the problems and prospects for African refugee settlement, integration into host communities, and/or repatriation. The study tackles assumptions about the life and productive rehabilitation of the refugee in host countries, and suggests constructive methods of making refugees active participants in development efforts.
  50. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
  51. The Rising Seas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  52. Simon Fraser University
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    Resource Type: Organization
  53. Small Garden, Bitter Weed
    Struggle and Change in Jamaica

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    This is a social history of the Jamaican people - from the time of the European invasion to the present day. It is a history of struggle and change. Written in the run-up to the 1981 elections which led to the defeat of the Manley government, this revised and extended version now analyzes the consequences of that defeat for the people of Jamaica.
  54. Socialist Register 1996
    Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1996
  55. Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
    Resource Type: Book
  56. 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.
  57. The Third World and the USSR
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    What use is the Soviet Union to the Third World? Why is its authoritarian system so often attractive to Third World regimes? Why have so many regimes apparently adopted Soviet Marxism as their model? The authors show how the Soviet model is often used to suit the purposes of governments whose goals are essentially capitalist.
  58. University of Winnipeg
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    Resource Type: Organization
  59. What is the New International Economic Order?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1975
    Overview and critique of the New International Economic Order.
  60. Who do we try to rescue today?
    Canada under corporate rule

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
  61. World Relief Canada
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    Resource Type: Organization


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