Development blogs: the blogroll
When we launched this blog back in August we only knew of a handful of blogs that discussed international development issues. Since then my RSS reader has become overrun with development-related feeds. After some housecleaning and additional research over the weekend I have exported my development-related RSS feeds into a public Bloglines account. Find the full folder list here, or a hyperlinked version here. More info below the fold.
As of now there are 150+ feeds. About 80% are blogs - the rest are news feeds from development sites. I tried to include feeds that discussed development issues at least 80% of the time. I have especially tried to stay away from those that focus on politics and criticize people as apposed to ideas. There is an admitted bias towards private sector development related issues (corporate responsibility, social enterprise, microfinance etc…), but that’s only because these are the feeds I have been reading.
The categories are just my quick attempt to organize them. My guess is that most people will be interested in the ‘Commentary and Opinions’ category – a catchall category for those blogs I could not pigeonhole elsewhere. I have no doubt missed dozens of possible feeds, so either email me or leave your suggestions in the comments. I will happily add them as long as they focus on development issues.
Also, if you want the blogroll script or a special link for a particular folder, just let me know and I'll send it to you.
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Greetings, This is a very good initiative to make available this list of blogs related to development issues.
Cheers -- -- Emma
Posted by: Emma Asomba | Mar 9, 2006 3:58:47 PM
our blog has got some commentary on development issues; sending a couple of recent links;
http://truckandbarter.com/mt/archives/2006/03/iraqi_date_merc.html
http://truckandbarter.com/mt/archives/2006/03/going_to_harvar_1.html
http://truckandbarter.com/mt/archives/2006/03/the_right_way_a.html
http://truckandbarter.com/mt/archives/2006/02/from_the_coffee.html
Posted by: paul | Mar 9, 2006 8:11:38 PM
http://truckandbarter.com/mt/archives/2006/03/iraqi_date_merc.html
sending a link to a recent post on mobile phones and development.
-paul
Posted by: paul | Mar 9, 2006 8:13:18 PM
How do you think on "contract out in early childhood education"? Thanks!! Amy
RRU response: Amy, you should get in touch with EdInvest - they are the WB experts on contracting out education services. http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/che.nsf/Content/Primary+and+secondary. Also see this online discussion: http://rru.worldbank.org/Discussions/Topics/Topic61.aspx
Posted by: AMY | Mar 26, 2006 7:20:33 AM
Thanks for including CGD's Vaccines for Development blog on your blogroll. However, I wanted to let you know that as of today (World Health Day), we have expanded the scope to include the full range of global health policy issues. We would greatly appreciate if you could reflect that shift by including the Global Health Policy blog (http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/) in your blogroll.
Posted by: Jessica Wolf | Apr 7, 2006 6:35:43 PM