Professor James Habyarimana creates affordable, immediately available solutions to improve health and education globally. Professor James Habyarimana knows that the solutions to…
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,…
New study, designed by McCourt assistant professor Andrew Zeitlin and UC San Diego professor Craig McIntosh, shows that cash transfers to young people in Rwanda were more effective than a job…
This year, 11 students received the McCourt Fund for Student Excellence, a $2,500 stipend to help support costs associated with unpaid summer internships. Launched in 2011, the McCourt Fund for…
In a 2017 YouGov poll, public opinion in the UK rated weather forecasters as more trusted than economists. In the US, a survey asking a similar question also showed a…
This year, three economists were awarded a Nobel Prize for their rigorously analytical approach to international development – an approach that is also at the heart of the McCourt School…
LabGov Georgetown researches innovative ways to help people who live in cities enjoy and utilize shared living spaces and resources. Learn how the Harlem E-Project is working with community members…
