Research resources and advice for Swarthmore students applying for these competitive fellowships and prizes: Watson, Truman, Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright
Quickly find population, income, health, education, and other statistics for almost any country in the world. World Development Indicators is prepared by the World Bank.
Political Handbook of the World
Find detailed information about a country's government, political party system, and more. (A more authoritative alternative to Wikipedia, for starters.)
Planning a Watson Itinerary: Identifying Organizations & Other Potential Sites
Not sure which organizations work on the projects you're interested in? Want to see which organizations are active in a particular country? Use these directories to find out.
Each country has a searchable PDF document, listing the following development-related organizations (updated as of 2011, so verify currency!). Here's the directory for Nepal, for example.
(1) international organizations (2) government institutions (3) private sector support organizations (including fairtrade) (4) finance institutions (5) training and research centres (6) civil society organizations (7) development consulting firms (including references to job opportunities and vacancy announcements) (8) information providers (development newsletters/journals) (9) grantmakers
