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McCourt School’s development research center awarded $1.5M by USAID, $3M by FID
While school enrollment rates increase annually, the availability of qualified teachers is not keeping pace, resulting in below-grade learning levels. Policies that can improve…
October 6, 2022
- Discovery & Impact
- General News
What happens when developing countries take a gamble on their future?
The McCourt School of Public Policy’s Master of International Development Policy (MIDP) program hosted Stefan Dercon , professor of economic policy at the University of Oxford,…
September 19, 2022
- General News
- Research
Disaster recovery — who gets left behind?
Tahir Andrabi, Benjamin Daniels , a research fellow at Gui2de , and McCourt School Professor Jishnu Das surveyed households four years after the 2005 “great” earthquake in…
September 9, 2022
- Discovery & Impact
- Student Experience
Not your typical summer professional development opportunity
Each year, McCourt School students in the Master of International Development Policy (MIDP) program secure unique professional opportunities with leading development institutions…
June 21, 2022
- Alumni
- Student Experience
Former graduate students share how their love began at the McCourt School
Bidjan Nashat (Hertie MPP‘07) and Joanna Mikulski (MPP‘07) Bidjan, an exchange student from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin , met Joanna during McCourt School…
February 14, 2022
- Discovery & Impact
- General News
- Student Experience
Life after military service: Finding purpose and community at McCourt
Ahead of the fall 2021 academic year, the McCourt School named an inaugural class of Newmark Scholars , awarded through the Craig Newmark Veterans Scholarship Fund , which…
February 7, 2022
- Discovery & Impact
- Research
New study shows benefits, limits of cash transfers
Cash transfers to young people in Rwanda were more effective than a job training program in helping them build assets, increase savings, and improve productivity, according to a…
September 11, 2020
- General News
- Student Experience
Congratulations to the 2020 McCourt Fund for Student Excellence Recipients
Launched in 2011, the McCourt Fund for Student Excellence provides financial assistance to students who are advancing their careers with substantive and meaningful internships…
June 2, 2020
- University News
Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo Discusses ‘Good Economics in Hard Times’
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 lack of…
December 9, 2019
- Alumni
- Discovery & Impact
McCourt Alumni Bring Innovative Approach to Development Economics
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…
December 9, 2019