Blog aggregator: List of blogs (alphabetical) Blog Directory. Development blogs you should read. It would be invidious to recommend particular blogs, and what’s the point of having a blog if you can’t be invidious?
So, if you only read a few development blogs, here is my list of who I think you should be reading. I expect I have embarrassed myself by leaving out somebody crucial – if so, please tell me in the comments and I’ll fix it. I’ve also updated the blogroll on the right of the page. Development blogs you should be reading To make this pleasingly controversial, I’ve also put them roughly in order, from “must read” at the top to “probably should read”. If you want an email whenever this blog is updated, please put your email address in the box top right. Development organisations and think-tanks Here are some blogs from development organisations and think tanks – some of them can err on the wrong side of the blog/flog boundary from time to time. Development podcasts Here are some development-related podcasts. Bubbling up: newer development blogs. The New Who’s Who of International Development Blogging.
Blogging in the field…of international development I realized the other day that I hadn’t updated my blogroll in about a year and a half.
A lot has changed since then. Bill Easterly closed down the Aid Watch blog and is now blogging at NYU’s Development Research Institute; Tales from the Hood went off the air and locked many of his posts up under password protection (still has an active FB page though); others simply stopped blogging. I also starting following bloggers and sites, both new and old, that I hadn’t previously. Some of these are quite noteworthy, like Project Syndicate, Dave Algoso’s Find What Works, Duncan Green’s From Poverty to Power, and Ian Thorpe’s KM on a Dollar a Day. Africa is a Country A collective media blog with scores of contributors covering media, politics, sports, opinion, and events. Aid on the Edge of Chaos Written by Ben Ramalingam, this blog explores the nexus of complexity sciences and international aid. Development Research Institute – NYU Evan Lieberman. Economic Development: Blog. World Bank Blogs. Top Blogs on Southeast Asian Politics, Business and Economic Development (2013) The global blogosphere is a rich source of content on economic development in Southeast Asia, but some of the most high-quality research and reporting is buried deep in the long tail of the web.
This report will help readers cut through the fluff and identify some of the best English-language blogs that cover business, politics, culture and other topics related to economic development in Southeast Asia today. Note: for the purposes of this article, TigerMine defines a “blog” as any site publishing content primarily for the internet. This includes some sites that self-identify as “online news portals” or “online magazines.” See the appendix at the end of the article for more discussion of how TigerMine defines blogging. Top Blogs on ASEAN Economic Development TigerMine Research has been tracking Southeast Asia’s online media industry since early 2012, and currently maintains a large database of content sources, including blogs of individuals and organizations operating in the region.