Inspired by her experiences living and working in Mexico and South America, soon-to-be-graduate Diana Rivas Garcia (MIDP’24) aspires to empower communities through development policy. In September…
McCourt Ambassador Serenity Fan (MIDP’24) uses their interdisciplinary skills to help ensure people who live in South Asia have access to life-giving water supplies. Serenity Fan (MIDP’24)…
Dean Karlan, a leading economist, social entrepreneur and author, shared real-world outcomes of income-generating activities at a keynote lecture hosted by the McCourt School’s Master of International Development…
October 2, 2023
Discovery & Impact, General News, Student Experience
The Master of International Development Policy program students’ capstone project received high praise from NewGlobe, leading to the real-world application of their work in developing countries.
Professor James Habyarimana creates affordable, immediately available solutions to improve health and education globally. Professor James Habyarimana knows that the solutions to…
Supported by new grant funding, McCourt Assistant Professor Andrew Zeitlin and fellow researchers will assist Rwanda’s Ministry of Education to scale a teacher incentive program to reach more than 370,000…
The McCourt School’s Master of International Development Policy program hosted leading economist and Oxford Professor Stefan Dercon for a discussion of why some countries win and others lose.
Major disasters are frequently followed by compensation or aid, but little is known about recovery from such large, but compensated, shocks. Tahir Andrabi, Benjamin Daniels, a research…
Through the MIDP Summer Experience, McCourt School students apply analytical methods to real world problems in developing countries. Each year, McCourt School students in the…
June 21, 2022
Discovery & Impact, General News, Student Experience
Newmark Scholar and veteran Samuel Grantz (MIDP‘23) is turning his passion for service into a career improving global equality. Ahead of the fall 2021 academic year,…
