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Students Work on Development Projects in Nairobi

December 12, 2012

In the summer of 2012 four Georgetown students traveled to Nairobi, Kenya to work on development projects with GPPI associate professor James Habyarimana and associate professor of economics Billy Jack. Over two months the students assisted the professors with surveys, focus groups, and data collection on projects ranging from road safety to maternal health savings to financial literacy.

In the summer of 2012, four students traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, to work on development projects with Billy Jack, an associate professor of economics with Georgetown College and James Habyarimana, an associate professor with the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. For more than two months, the students assisted with surveys, focus groups, and data collection on projects ranging from road safety to maternal health savings to financial literacy.