Links & Data
external page Toolkit for PhD students in Economics and Related Fields
Tobias Klein says PhD students are seldom taught how to effectively perform certain tasks essential for their work. He compiles a list of sources and links offering insights for PhD students in Economics and related fields on academic writing, publishing, communicating, coding and workflows, and professional advice.
external page "Links round-up" Blog from the Centre for the Study of African Economies
Blog by Ranil Dissanayake with a weekly round-up of links to articles and papers about African Studies and Developent Econonomics.
external page Development Economics Network Switzerland (DENS)
The Development Economics Network Switzerland was initiated by researchers from five different Swiss universities. DENS links development economists at Swiss universities, fostering exchange between researchers and policymakers and supporting young researchers in the field.
ETH for Development (ETH4D)
ETH for Development (ETH4D) aims to develop innovations that address global challenges and educate future leaders in sustainable development. ETH4D supports research and learning that combines varied knowledge and skills from engineering to social sciences, from natural sciences to the humanities, from scientists to citizens, and from research to practice.
external page European Development Network
The European Development Network is a European Development Institute service that helps institutions in its network to access grants from the European Union. The institutions within the Network aim to make sustainable contributions to the social, economic and cultural development of Europe and its neighbors through projects and partnerships.
external page World Bank Development Impact
Blog posts by different researchers from the wider World Bank community on news, methods, and insights into impact evaluations.
external page Gapminder
Gapminder, a self-proclaimed fact tank, fights misconceptions about global development. It offers free teaching resources that make our world more understandable with the help of reliable statistics and promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand.
external page Our World in Data
Our World in Data is a data collection from scholars for scholars that makes data and knowledge about the world's big problems accessible and understandable for everybody.
external page Google Dataset Search
Google Dataset Search is a webtool for efficiently searching for publicly accessible datasets made available online.
external page SDGs Today: The Global Hub for Real-Time SDG Data
SDGs Today is an open access data platform providing timely data on measures of sustainable development around the world with the aim to monitor the SDGs.
external page This Week in Africa
This Week in Africa is a weekly bulletin that curates news about democracy, development, and daily life across Africa. They attempt to place the continent’s diversity in its context and to inform the public about the changes taking place across Africa.
ETHZ Research Collection: Data from our projects
The Development Economics Group actively promotes transparency and openness by making the data from the following projects publicly available:
external page Bezzola, S., Brugger, F., Günther, I., & Sebhatu, D. (2022). Do social investments by mining companies harm citizen-state relations? Experimental evidence from Burkina Faso. The Journal of Development Studies, 58(3), 417–435.