These websites contain a vast array of resources including libraries, publications and links to other sites that will help you along in your journey to better understand the issues surrounding poverty in our world and philanthropy in general.

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Human Development Reports

Human development is about much more than the rise or fall of national incomes. It is about creating an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accord with their needs and interests. People are the real wealth of nations. Development is thus about expanding the choices people have to lead lives that they value. And it is thus about much more than economic growth, which is only a means — if a very important one — of enlarging people’s choices.

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

The Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP)

The Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (CSGVP) (formerly the National Survey of Giving, Volunteering, and Participating) provides the most comprehensive look at the contributions of Canadians to one another and to their communities ever undertaken in Canada. The CSGVP asks Canadians a series of questions about how they give money and other resources to individuals and to charitable and nonprofit organizations; volunteer time to charitable and voluntary organizations and directly to individuals; and participate in organizations by becoming members. The CSGVP is the result of a partnership of federal government departments and voluntary sector organizations that includes Imagine Canada, Canadian Heritage, Health Canada, Social Development Canada, Statistics Canada, and Volunteer Canada. Read and download these reports and manuals for in-depth analysis and applied learning from the results from the Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating.

Index Mundi

Index Mundi is home to one of the Internet’s most complete country profiles. The site contains detailed country information including, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources. Learn about the history, geography, demographics, government and economy of every nation on the planet in a very well laid out format.