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Bridging Harlem’s Digital Divide

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…

December 2, 2019

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Research Aims to Disrupt Traditional Thinking Around Development Funding

When it comes to development funding, would populations in need be better off if aid practitioners simply got out of the way and distributed aid in cash rather than in complex…

September 13, 2019

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Student Experience

Students address community health, food insecurityand other issues affecting low-income Washingtonians

The 5th annual Georgetown Public Policy Challenge tasked graduate students with developing innovative policy solutions to address local or regional issues in the Washington, D.C.…

March 20, 2019

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McCourt and UCSD researchers put cost effectiveness of conventional foreign aid to the test

September 19, 2018 - What is the most effective and scalable way to administer aid to vulnerable populations? It turns out that unconditional cash transfers to the poor may be…

September 19, 2018

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East Africa Road Safety Project Gets $3 Million Grant

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded Georgetown researchers a $3 million grant to expand a road safety intervention project in East Africa,…

July 12, 2016

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Georgetown Researchers to Evaluate, Transform Education in Tanzania

Georgetown's McCourt School is the lead institution on a study to evaluate an ambitious reform in education in Tanzania, where basic reading and math skills have plummeted in…

June 23, 2016

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Georgetown Research Project Gets $3 Million Grant

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded Georgetown researchers a $3 million grant to expand a road safety intervention project in East Africa,…

November 12, 2014