For further study:

ILO http://www.ilo.org/geneva2000

United Nations: World Social Summit 1995 http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/wssd/index.html

United Nations: World Social Summit and Beyond: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/geneva2000/

UNDP/Human Development Reports (HDRs) http://www.undp.org/hdro/index.html

UNDP/Poverty Report 2000: http://www.undp.org/povertyreport

UNDP/SEPED Poverty website http://www.undp.org/poverty/

UNDP/SEPED Resources on Budget Initiatives: http://www.undp.org/poverty/events/wkshop/budgets/bud-resources.htm

UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org

World Bank PovertyNet http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/index.htm

Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK ‘s Eldis Poverty Guide http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/pov/pov.htm

OneWorld Guide to Poverty http://www.oneworld.org/guides/poverty/index.html

Oxfam: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/

SocialWatch Monitoring progress on commitments http://www.socialwatch.org/1999/eng/chartings/base02a.htm

Poverty Concepts and Measurement:

Review of Poverty Concepts and Indicators (pdf) by Renata Lok Dessallien of UNDP http://www.undp.org/poverty/publications/pov_red/Review_of_Poverty_Concepts.pdf

Dimensions of Poverty by SocialWatch http://fp.chasque.apc.org:8081/socwatch/1997/dimpov.htm

Listening to the Poor and Portraits of Poverty

A portrait of poverty in Oregon

http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/edmat/html/em/em8743/default.html

World Bank: Voices of the Poor http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/voices/index.htm

Saint Peter's College Library: Poverty Research: Taking the side of the poor

http://www.spc.edu/library/pov3.html

Poverty Data:

UNDP Poverty Report: http://www.undp.org/povertyreport

UNDP/Human Development Report Office: http://www.undp.org/hdro

OECD/DAC http://www.oecd.org/dac/ and http://www.paris21.org/betterworld/

World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/trends/index.htm

Poverty & Hunger

The hunger site: http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/HungerSite

Wealth and Poverty: A Hypertext Reading Unit http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~jmitchel/class/contents.htm