RESOURCES

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: RECLAIMING POLICY SPACE: DOMESTIC RESOURCE MOBILIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT STATES. By the UN Centre for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 26 September 2007. The objective of this year's report is to examine the potential of African countries to increase their total domestic financial resource envelope in order to reduce dependence on official development assistance (ODA) and diversify their development resources. A complementary objective of the report is to examine how to channel these resources to productive investments in order to increase their efficiency. Internet: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/webflyer.asp?docid=8996&intItemID=2068&lang=1

REFORM OF WORLD BANK GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES. By South Centre, October 2007. This Analytical Note discusses potential governance reforms in the World Bank's governance structures, with an understanding that some reforms become more or less imperative depending on the direction of the discussions around the long-term strategic direction of the Bank. It concludes that reforms in the governance structures of the World Bank and other global governance institutions are needed if they are to be better able to reflect and respond to the development needs and priorities of developing countries. Internet: http://www.southcentre.org/publications/AnalyticalNotes/GlobalEconomicGov/2007Sep_Reform_of_World_Bank_governance_structures.pdf