Development Economics is a truly passionate interest of mine.
During my PhD at UCL I have spent most of my time on "thinking" and "doing" development.
I have been a research scholar at the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo) since 2004 and an active volunteer for Oxfam since 2003.
I did a summer internship at the Office of Evaluation and Oversight of the Inter American Development Bank (IADB) in Washington DC in the summer 2005. This was my second internship.
I did the first
one at the
Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations (ECE/UN) in Geneva in
the summer of 2000.
Here you find some links for research and volunteering opportunities on development.
Development - data
Summary of data sources (maintained by BREAD)
Research Data Sets, The World Bank
LSMS Data Sets, The World Bank
Development - networks and conferences
Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis and Development (BREAD)
European Development Research Network (EUDN)
Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
(ECINEQ)
NGOs
Oxfam, UK.
Rete Lilliput, Italy (Italian
NGO, sorry the website is only in Italian).
Rete Lilliput Piacenza,
Italy (the local site of Rete Lilliput in my hometown, I was a co-founder back
in 2000!).