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Essay question: What does it mean to speak of development as “sustainable”?/p>

Links to Websites

International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org/
This UN agency offers financial and other information and data for the countries of the world andincludes the latest edition of The World Economic Outlook.

Population Reference Bureau: http://www.prb.org/
This website contains a wealth of information on population and population issues for individual countries and the world, and includes the latest World Population Data Sheet.

United Nations Development Programme: http://www.undp.org/
This UNDP website offers excellent information on economic development issues for the LDCs. It contains the annual Human Development Report and the current human development index figures for the countries around the world.

United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP): http://www.grida.no/
This UN website contains information and hyperlinks for environmental issues around the world.

World Resources Institute: http://www.wri.org/
The website of this research body contains research and best practice on global environmental problems and includes EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal, which offers data and maps on environmental issues including water resources, forests, climate, etc.