Contemporary African Art from Southern Africa (Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe). Includes a directory of African artists, discussion forum, links to related sites. Founded by Carla van Beers from the Netherlands.
The IRIS Center has been awarded a five-year, $6 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to assess the impact of six grants the foundation made in the area of microfinance. IRIS will work in conjunction with Microfinance Opportunities, a Washington, D.C.-based microenterprise resource center to conduct the assessment.
This Web site contains the online versions of books previously published (1988-98) in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army. Because the original intent of the series' sponsor was to focus primarily on lesser-known areas of the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed, the series is not all-inclusive. At present, 101 countries and regions are covered. The date of information for each country appears on the title page of each country and at the end of each section of text.
