Ravenhill: Global Political Economy 2e
Other Inter-Governmental Associations
www.oecd.org
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): data on development aid, foreign investment, economies of member states. Staff working papers and other reports online.
www.g7.utoronto.ca
G7/G8 – a group of major industrial democracies that meet regularly to deal with major economic and political issues facing their domestic societies and the international community.
www.thecommonwealth.org
The Commonwealth is an association of 53 countries who share a common history in the British Empire.
www.g20.org
The Group of Twenty (G-20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was established in 1999 to bring together systemically important industrialised and developing economies to discuss key issues in the global economy.
www.g77.org
The Group of 77 (G-77) is the largest Third World coalition in the United Nations. The coalition provides the means for the developing world to articulate and promote its collective economic interests and enhance its joint negotiating capacity on all major international economic issues in the United Nations system, and promote economic and technical cooperation among developing countries.
www.nam.gov.za
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
www.southcentre.org
The South Centre is an intergovernmental body of developing countries intended to meet the need for analysis of development problems and experience, as well as to provide intellectual and policy support required by developing countries for collective and individual action in the international arena.
www.afdb.org
African Development Bank
www.adb.org
Asian Development Bank
www.ebrd.com
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
www.iadb.org
Inter-American Development Bank Group
www.isdb.org
Islamic Development Bank
The World Bank's page on multilateral development banks: web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/
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www.opec.org
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)


