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Anna Llumà Trujillo; Lucas C. P. M. Meijs; Guido Berens – Environmental Education Research, 2024
As climate change disrupts our lives and environmental awareness and concerns rise within society, more individuals invest time contributing to activities and projects that help preserve the environment. This study uses a recent international database containing data on 1383 environmental event volunteers in 13 different countries, composed of…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Conservation (Environment), Climate, International Programs
Menashy, Francine – Teachers College Press, 2019
Partnerships are now pervasive in global education and development, but are they creating equitable, cooperative, and positive relationships? Through case studies of prominent multistakeholder partnerships--including the Education Cannot Wait Fund and Global Partnership for Education--as well as a comprehensive analysis of the global education…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Global Education, Educational Finance, International Programs
England, Ruth – Development Education Research Centre, 2022
This small-scale qualitative research study examines the extent to which teachers involved in Global North-South School Partnerships engage with learning about shared colonial histories. Existing research in this field suggests that teachers' lack of knowledge and confidence leads to historical context being largely absent from such projects.…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Developed Nations, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Participation
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Beja, Edsel L., Jr. – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The subjective well-being approach to the valuation of international development is applied to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Results indicate that the rich countries have particular preference for education, healthcare, and housing; they are willing to accept compensation for a failure to meet the three targets by 2015. The poor…
Descriptors: Well Being, Economically Disadvantaged, Evidence, Foreign Policy
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Thomas, M. A. – Policy Review, 2012
The shifting ideological winds of foreign aid donors have driven their policy towards governments in poor countries. Donors supported state-led development policies in poor countries from the 1940s to the 1970s; market and private-sector driven reforms during the 1980s and 1990s; and returned their attention to the state with an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Donors, Public Policy
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Jenkins, J. Craig; Scanlan, Stephen J.; Peterson, Lindsey – Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2007
Discussions of world hunger have focused on economic growth and international food aid, assuming that food supply is the critical issue. The authors show that food access rooted in social stratification and military power is the central problem. Synthesizing the entitlement and military famine approaches to hunger, the authors examine the effects…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Conflict, Child Health, Social Stratification
Honawar,Vaishali – Education Week, 2006
World leaders joined forces in Mozambique last week to exhort wealthy nations, including the United States, to step up their contributions toward educating all children in the next decade. The United Kingdom last week pledged $15 billion--annually--to give a major boost to the Education for All Fast Track Initiative that builds on a promise made…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, International Programs, Educational Finance
Mullin, James J. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1980
Reviews rehabilitation information services in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Scotland, and England. Several transnational services are also described. Eight sources are cited. (FM)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Developed Nations, Disabilities, Information Services
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Price, Mary S.; Hedberg, Sten – The Serials Librarian, 1987
The first of two articles discusses national and international serials standards, including the International Standard Serial Number; the International Serials Data System and the International Standard Bibliographic Description for Serials; and emerging standards for serial holding statements. The status of serials cataloging in Sweden is…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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Harley, William G. – Journal of Communication, 1981
Discusses the launching and operation of the International Program for Development of Communication (IPDC), a UNESCO clearinghouse for communications development. (PD)
Descriptors: Communications, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Information Networks
Line, Maurice – Library Association Record, 1978
Reports the recent developments in the UAP program in Great Britain and Europe and suggests methods of solving the present problems. (JVP)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Interlibrary Loans, International Programs, Library Networks
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Watson, Gladys – Canadian Library Journal, 1985
Various projects implemented to combat illiteracy in the Third World are explored. Highlights include women's ability to exercise right to learn, adult illiteracy rates, World Literacy of Canada (WLC), the Nicaraguan literacy crusade, and a WLC development education program that encouraged Canadians to prepare materials in "plain…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
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Block, Clifford H. – Journal of Communication, 1982
Gives a detailed analysis of progress at the International Program for the Development of Communications (IPDC) Conference in Acapulco, January 1982. Assesses the tone of the continuing international dialog on communications. (PD)
Descriptors: Communications, Conferences, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Beaudiquez, Marcelle – 1981
This paper provides a discussion of various definitions of retrospective bibliography; a comparison of retrospective and current national bibliographies, both in countries with an established publishing tradition and in developing countries; a brief examination of the development of retrospective bibliographies from current national…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, International Organizations
International Bureau of Education, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1985
This working paper briefly reviews the history of the information activities of the International Bureau of Education (IBE) from its first consultative meeting in 1971 to the adoption in 1977 of Recommendation 71, which calls for the development of a worldwide information network in education based on the active participation of regional and…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Information Networks, Information Systems
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