The Water Cooler
A refreshing gulp of reports and ramblings from policy-central.
PolicyNet's Country Profiles a great resource
I know this is going to look like advertising for PolicyNet.
It's not meant that way at all. Ah, what the heck.
For X-Mas my spouse gave me a trip to Budapest to continue my explorations of the world that once stood behind the infamous Iron Curtain. I've managed to visit quite a few ex-soviet countries over the past few years of intermittent living in Berlin. As I tick one country after another off of my 'to visit' list, Hungary and Romania have been moving incrementally upwards, to the top.
Anyhow, in preparation for my trip, this afternoon I started bumping around the internet looking for information about Hungary -- you know, the kind of historical, anthropological and political tidbits a public policy student arms him or herself with before visiting a new country -- when to my great delight I discovered PolicyNet's Country Profiles section.
Brief, concise, up-to-date, and somehow less American-centric than what one finds on the CIA factbook, this is a great resource for public policy people (PPPs) of all walks. So, again, at risk of making The Water Cooler look like an infomercial, I highly recommend this great resource. Heck, maybe I'll go see what else this site has to offer -- aside, that is, from class-act blogging.
Happy New Years!
For X-Mas my spouse gave me a trip to Budapest to continue my explorations of the world that once stood behind the infamous Iron Curtain. I've managed to visit quite a few ex-soviet countries over the past few years of intermittent living in Berlin. As I tick one country after another off of my 'to visit' list, Hungary and Romania have been moving incrementally upwards, to the top.
Anyhow, in preparation for my trip, this afternoon I started bumping around the internet looking for information about Hungary -- you know, the kind of historical, anthropological and political tidbits a public policy student arms him or herself with before visiting a new country -- when to my great delight I discovered PolicyNet's Country Profiles section.
Brief, concise, up-to-date, and somehow less American-centric than what one finds on the CIA factbook, this is a great resource for public policy people (PPPs) of all walks. So, again, at risk of making The Water Cooler look like an infomercial, I highly recommend this great resource. Heck, maybe I'll go see what else this site has to offer -- aside, that is, from class-act blogging.
Happy New Years!
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