These are links of general interest to folks involved in the development “arts.” Over time, with your contributions, we would like to grow this resource. If you have links you would like to submit, please send them to office@usaidalumni.org Attn: Dev Issues.New! The Foreign Assistance Dashboard - The goal of the Dashboard is to enable a wide variety of stakeholders to examine, research, and track U.S. Government foreign assistance investments in an accessible and easy-to-understand format. As it evolves, the Dashboard will incorporate budget, financial, program, and performance data from all U.S. Government agencies implementing foreign assistance, humanitarian, and development funds.New! IMF eLibrary – Fund publications provide assessments on the future prospects for the global economy. The World Economic Outlook reviews global activity, which has weakened and become more uneven. The Global Financial Stability Report outlines how the risks to stability have increased substantially in recent months. The Fiscal Monitor explores the challenges that persist in many advanced, emerging-market, and low-income countries.New! Feeling nostalgic for the for the good old days when program designs (more or less) marched to the same drum? It was all laid out so clearly in Handbook 3. The cost of a trip down memory lance? One simple click on the link.
- New! Feeling nostalgic for the for the good old days when program designs (more or less) marched to the same drum? It was all laid out so clearly in Handbook 3. The cost of a trip down memory lance? One simple click on the link.
- New! Freedom in the World 2011 Survey – Freedom House released its 2011 annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. According to the findings, 2010 was the fifth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline—the longest period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report. If you would prefer to visit just the free/not free map, you may see it here.
- New! The Foreign Assistance Dashboard - The goal of the Dashboard is to enable a wide variety of stakeholders to examine, research, and track U.S. Government foreign assistance investments in an accessible and easy-to-understand format. As it evolves, the Dashboard will incorporate budget, financial, program, and performance data from all U.S. Government agencies implementing foreign assistance, humanitarian, and development funds.
- New! IMF eLibrary – Fund publications provide assessments on the future prospects for the global economy. The World Economic Outlook reviews global activity, which has weakened and become more uneven. The Global Financial Stability Report outlines how the risks to stability have increased substantially in recent months. The Fiscal Monitor explores the challenges that persist in many advanced, emerging-market, and low-income countries.
- New! Front Lines - Front Lines is now only available electronically to most USAID retirees. This link will take you to its home on the web.
- World Bank Infoshop – This site provides access to information on Bank programs and development strategies in all borrower countries. It also offers information on events that facilitate debate on development issues through panel discussions, book launches, presentations and film screenings.
- MFAN, the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, advocates for more effective and accountable U.S. foreign assistance that will deliver greater results for people in need and U.S. taxpayers.
- World Bank Development Indicators - Browse the extensive list of featured indicators and more from the World Bank’s most popular dataset, World Development Indicators
- Civic Literacy Exam – Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%.
- The CIA World Factbook – This is a good first place to go for basic information on any country in the world.
- Transparency International Corruption Perception Index – Transparency International is a non-governmental organization dedicated to increasing government accountability and curbing both international and national corruption. The Corruption Perception Index scores the perceptions of business people. The site includes links to prior year TI surveys.
- World Competitiveness Scorecard- Developed by the International Institute for Management Development, the World Competitiveness Scorecard compiles and analyzes data on 58 industrialized and emerging economies in order to rank their competitiveness. Countries compete by providing an environment with the most efficient structure, institutions and policies in which enterprises can compete successfully.
- Failed States Index – Produced by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace, this index provides a profile of world disorder and demonstrates the problems of weak and failing states. The methodology uses 12 social, economic, political, and military indicators and ranks 60 states in order of their vulnerability to violent internal conflict.
