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About
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.
About me:
Gunilla Pettersson,
economics PhD student at
University of Sussex. Swedish but have studied and worked in the
U.K., the U.S. and a few other places including
Lesotho the last 10
years. For more information see
my profile at
LinkedIn.
My research:
Main research interests
are education, inequality, intergenerational income
and education mobility, skilled migration, taxation
and evaluation methods.
Below are links to some of my research papers.
Inequality and Financial Reform in Latin America
(with
Jere R. Behrman
and
Nancy Birdsall)
Forthcoming.
(with
Michael A.
Clemens)
2006.
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
Very useful website
for economics PhD students. Contains advise on what
to read, access to PhD lecture notes, rankings of
economics departments and much more.
Kiva.org - microcredit at its
best
Website that lets
you lend directly (at zero interest rate) to
entrepreneurs in developing countries.
MIT online economics courses
Very useful
free course materials used at MIT. Access to lecture notes
and problem sets. Watch lecture videos and demonstrations.
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