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November 2006

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  1. Educational Video Game
    Food Force is an educational video game, created by the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) that tells the story of a hunger crisis on the fictional island of Sheylan. Players learn how to fight hunger through a series of mini-games, or “missions,” that demonstrate how the WFP helps communities overcome such crises and rebuild afterwards. The game also includes a Future Farming mission, where the player manages programs to ensure that Sheylan can become productive and self-sufficient.
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  2. Information Resources
    "A Good Place to Start," a new book from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, identifies websites that offer information on over 30 development-related themes. The book also includes advice on how to improve your Internet search results. A limited number of FREE hardcopies are available for development organizations from low- and middle-income countries, and the book can also be downloaded in PDF form.
    Email: agoodplacetostart@ids.ac.uk
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    RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort by hundreds of volunteers in 57 countries and 34 U.S. states to enhance the dissemination of economic research. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles, and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.
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    IFPRI Library’s Information Resources for Developing Countries is a collection of websites that provides current research information to researchers in the developing world.
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  3. IFPRI Dataset: South Africa: Social Accounting Matrix (SAM); 1993, 1998, and 1999
    The 1993, 1998, and 1999 SAMs for South Africa were constructed with the intention of incorporating the recently released supply-use tables for the country for these years. In line with this database, the SAM distinguishes between 43 productive sectors (activities) and the 43 commodities that they produce. By making use of the supply-use table, the SAM reflects how producers can produce more than a single commodity, and conversely, how a single commodity can be produced by multiple producers. Therefore, the SAM is a notable extension on existing SAMs for the country. The SAM accounts for four factors of production. These include unskilled, semi-skilled, and skilled labor, as well as the production factor capital. The SAM contains 14 representative households disaggregated across income deciles (with the exception of the top income decile, which is further subdivided into five income categories). Other institutions contained in the SAM include the rest of the world, the government, enterprises, and the savings-investment account.
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