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UN Best Practices Database

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Overview:: This site provides a free public access database with approximately 4,000 proven solutions to the common social, economic and environmental problems from around the world. The basis search is limited by practice status (best, good, promising and award winner) and by country, while the advance search further delineates by continental regions, type of organization and issue category. Results from this database provides a consistent template of information about the practice with respect to origin of country, summary as well as detailed narrative on the initiation, progress and current status.
Type of Material:: Reference material
Recommended Uses:: Homework for team work on solutions for hypothetical development cases. Could also provide background for research paper.
Technical Requirements:: Used Chrome to access
Identify Major Learning Goals:: • The student will be able to initiate a search on economic development issues worldwide. • The student will understand The diffusion of best practices in development and enhancement of living conditions in developing nations.
Target Student Population:: • Students taking the Principles of Macroeconomic, Introductory Macroeconomics, or Economic Development courses/program • Non-economic/non-business students taking economic development course as an elective
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: None

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Strengths:: • Professionally selected material so the contents are high quality documents • Information provided is authoritative with contact information for further communication. • Very easy to search by country and topic using the advanced search.
Concerns:: • Database only has information up through 2012

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Strengths:: • Very useful and effective if one of the learning objectives of the course is exploring and understanding economic development worldwide. • Good supplement to use when assigning business or economic research papers or in-class presentations about cross-country studies.
Concerns:: • This database site does not identify, reinforce nor build on any concepts • Site serves as a useful content source to explain economic or business concepts.

Other Issues and Comments:: There is a lot of information in this database that can be used to demonstrate both the issues and solutions related to development in developing nations.
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