General information on globalisation:

Range of up-to-the-minute cartoons from all over the world – try 'ecotoons' section for topical issues www.cartoonweb.com

Corporate Watch: two independent watchdogs monitoring large corporations – onward links, interactive sites www.corpwatch.org, www.corporatewatch.org.uk

Developments – free online and paper news magazine published by the Department for International Development www.developments.org.uk

Department for International Development [UK]: [site includes government policy documents on "globalisation and development"] www.dfid.gov.uk

Two organisations dealing with fair trade – supporting small scale producers' livelihoods www.fairtrade.org.uk and www.ifat.org

International Society for Ecology and Culture: favour development of local economies, site includes information, and onward and E-mail links www.isec.org.uk

One World: a site linking over 200 organisations involved in development www.oneworld.net

WWF-UK – one of then world's largest environmental organisations www.panda.org

Survival international – an organisation supporting tribal peoples www.survival-international.org

Research foundation for science, technology and ecology. http://www.vshiva.net [Vandana Shiva's site].
[See www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 for a copy of Vandana Shiva's speech at the Reith Lectures on Sustainable Development, 2000]

World Bank: economic and development information – an important source of statistics, includes site for schools www.worldbank.org

World Trade Organisation – sets the rules for international trade www.wto.org

Places:

An incredible list of country-specific links can be found at http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/

The Gambian Government www.gambia.gm

Jamaican news: The Gleaner www.jamaica-gleaner.com

Kenyan Government www.kenyaweb.com

Mongolian Government www.open-government.mn click 'english' button on top, right hand side

Mongolian Ministry for Foreign Affairs www.extmin.mn

Corporations:

Multinational corporations' own sites:

BMW www.bmw.com

Exxon www.exxon.com

Ford Motors www.ford.com

General Electrics www.ge.com

General Motors www.gm.com

Itochu www.itochu.com

Mitsui www.mitsui.co.jp

Nike www.nikebiz.com

Rover www.mg-rover.com

Royal Dutch Shell www.shell.com/royal-en/

The Body Shop www.the-body-shop.com

Toyota www.toyota.com

Virgin www.virgin.com

The world's richest people:

www.ask.co.uk
Good starting point for research into this – and many other issues: a general questions and answers search site

www.microsoft.com/BillGates/
Information on Bill Gates

askbill@microsoft.com
You might want to ask Bill some questions based on your work for this section: have a discussion in your group or class to decide which questions to ask at this site

www.forbes.com/worldsrichest/
The 'rich list'

Internet trading:

Regulating financial trading/Tobin Tax:

War on Want www.waronwant.org

The Tobin Tax Initiative www.ceedweb.org/iirp

ATTAC [France] www.attac.org

Halifax Initiative [Canada] http://www.halifaxinitiative.org

The banana trade:

Banana companies:

Dole www.dole.com

Del Monte www.delmonte.com

Geest Bananas www.geest.co.uk

Windwards Bananas www.windwards-bananas.co.uk/index.asp

Fyffes Bananas www.fyffes.com

Chiquita Bananas www.chiquita.com

http://biz.yahoo.com/i/
Hundreds of company profiles with onward links

www.bized.ac.uk
Information on businesses and companies worldwide: educational site with good search facilities

http://www.siu.edu/~psycho/psyc323/chapt04/
List of largest corporations: Managing across cultures, Janet Drez, September 1999

www.cleanclothes.org
Organisation aiming to improve working conditions in the global garment industry

www.soros.org
The Soros Foundation: Financier George Soros' site – about democracy in a globalised world

http://mai.flora.org
Site – critical of unregulated financial trading

www.nw.com
Global internet domain surveys – who's online and where

Background:

Agra Informa Group, a specialist information service on food, agriculture, soft commodities, fisheries and seafood www.agra-net.com

Oxfam fair trade www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/fairtrade/index.htm

Fairtrade foundation www.fairtrade.org.uk/

Caribbean Banana Exporters Association www.cbea.org

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