The United Nations Development Programme has a lively twitter feed that links to much of their new research and to other sources of development data. Here is the link. In recent days there have been lots of useful tweets for teachers and students keen to keep in touch with different aspects of development economics.

Thought provoking: In 50 years, 80% of the world’s elderly will be in low income countries Eco-Friendly bricks in #Bangladesh help reduce CO2 emissions How Indian tea is helping spur #development Over the next 20 years, the global demand for #water will be 40% more than today’s supply *% of people living in extreme poverty in developing nations dropped from 46% to 27% between 1990 and 2005

A highly recommended twitter feed for interested colleagues