What is the ideal “development economics” Twitter feed?

by on July 11, 2012 at 12:45 pm in Economics, Web/Tech | Permalink

I have some suggestions:

https://twitter.com/#!/GdnDevelopment

@Viewfromthecave

@OECD_Centre

https://twitter.com/#!/blogageco

https://twitter.com/#!/WorldBankPSD

https://twitter.com/#!/clairemelamed

@Shanta_WB

@whydev

@cblatts

@evavivalt

@deankarlan

@m_clem

@RachelStrohm

Some of them are shirkers, I know.  Whom else do you recommend?

20 comments

celestus July 11, 2012 at 2:13 pm

@bill_easterly , obviously.

Andy July 11, 2012 at 2:37 pm

Seconded.

Euripides July 11, 2012 at 2:53 pm

“Shirkers”? Them is fighting words. What is your evidence for this?

Michael Heller July 11, 2012 at 3:21 pm

Claire Melamed was one of my favourite students at SOAS. It’s nice to see how well she’s done in development economics.

Tyler, not very impressed with the formatting of your list! This is how it’s done by psychologists:

https://twitter.com/MichaelGHeller/status/223127983873990658

Sara July 11, 2012 at 3:40 pm

@HungerProject

Pablo July 11, 2012 at 3:54 pm

@JPZS_economics

Profile:
Economista, investigador, gestión de proyectos, cooperación internacional, I+D, ciencia y tecnología, análisis información

Abstract:
Blog de análisis económico basado en la contrastación diaria de información que se genera por el mundo (siempre con fuentes fiables). Es por tanto el objetivo principal de este blog, ser un referente como fuente de información citable, que pueda ser de ayuda a estudiantes, académicos e investigadores, así como, todo aquel lector interesado en diversos temas de índole económica. Desde el 2008, un archivo histórico de hechos y eventos económicos en el mundo.

Michael Heller July 11, 2012 at 4:10 pm

I highly recommend @JoseMSalazarX
https://twitter.com/JoseMSalazarX

Masters and PhD in development economics at Cambridge. Tweets a lot about youth employment because he now heads the employment section at the International Labour Organization. He also seems very likeable and diverse in his interests.

RPLong July 11, 2012 at 4:39 pm

Is BRAC tweeting these days?

Tim Ogden July 11, 2012 at 5:03 pm

@berkozler12 (from WB, tweeting their Development Impact blog, which is excellent)

lm July 11, 2012 at 5:21 pm

seconded

Alexandre Delaigue July 11, 2012 at 5:18 pm

@owenbarder

Brandon Fuller July 11, 2012 at 5:20 pm

Useful list, thanks.
@charlesjkenney (& basically all @CGDev folks who tweet), @aidwatch, @owenbarder

Ilya Lozovsky July 11, 2012 at 7:23 pm

Tyler, could you produce, or request, a similar list for “political development” i.e. democratization, rule of law promotion, civil society assistance, etc?

jonathan July 12, 2012 at 2:43 am

@odi_development

Andreas Moser July 12, 2012 at 6:05 am

What is a Twitter?

Claire Melamed July 12, 2012 at 6:33 am

Thanks! I’d add Duncan Green: @fp2p

Elías Gonzalo July 12, 2012 at 6:45 am

Interesting….thank you!
Besides publishing myself (well, my company’s Twitter profile) as we share lots of information, TAMBIEN EN ESPAÑOL!
@XSalaimartin Professor of Economics at Columbia University.

Elias Gonzalo July 12, 2012 at 6:46 am

Better if I include the address…. @MancalaC

Tom July 12, 2012 at 10:55 am

Honored to be listed. I would add @rovingbandit, @calestous, @texasinafrica and @meowtree to name a few. I keep a more comprehensive twitter list of development tweeters here: https://twitter.com/#!/viewfromthecave/development-peeps/members

born_cynic July 12, 2012 at 11:23 am

I’m glad that an issue as important as development economics gets enough consideration for people to occasionally read 140 characters about it.

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