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Why developmentdata.org?

To provide easy access to free, reliable developing country data. The data linked to through  developmentdata.org are provided by reputable international organisations and research institutions and data documentation is available for all the data.

 

My research

Gunilla Pettersson economics DPhil candidate at University of Sussex. Main research interests: education, health, skilled migration, and evaluation methods. Below are links to some of my papers.

 

Who Wants to Work in a Rural Post? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Rural Background and Faith-Based Institutions in Ethiopia and Rwanda (with Pieter Serneels, Jose G. Montalvo, Tomas Lievens, Damascene Butera and Aklilu Kidanu) Bulletin of the World Health Organization 88(5).

 

Governance in Health Care Delivery: Raising Performance, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5074. (with Maureen Lewis) 2009.

 

Governance in Education: Raising Performance in the Sector, World Bank HDN Working Paper (with Maureen Lewis) 2009.

 

Schooling Inequality, Crises, and Financial Liberalization in Latin America, Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 165. (with Jere R. Behrman and Nancy Birdsall) 2009.

New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad, Human Resources for Health 6(1).

(with Michael A. Clemens) 2008.

An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Reinventing Foreign Aid, edited by William Easterly (with Todd Moss and Nicolas van de Walle) 2008.

U.S. Economic Policies and Assistance Programs: Impact on Economic Growth and Poverty in Kenya 2005.

 

Many thanks to

Tony Kopetchny who provided technical advice and encouragement to get started. SUBMITexpress for listing the URL with the search engines. StatCounter used for web optimisation.

 


Other useful links

econphd.net

Website for economics PhD students. Contains advise on what to read, access to PhD lecture notes, rankings of economics departments and much more (no longer being updated).

 

MIT online economics courses

Very useful free course materials used at MIT. Access to lecture notes and problem sets.

 

   

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