Tag: RISE
8 Articles
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Summer 2019 – Tanzania
Rafael Contreras Gomez “This is one of those lessons that could not have been learned in the classroom and for that, I’m grateful I was given this opportunity.”Read…
November 11, 2019
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Rafael Contreras Gomez
As I suspect it was the case for many of my classmates, I applied to the gui2de summer internship seeking an experience that would allow me to connect the analytical work I was…
November 11, 2019
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Shilpa Rao
This past summer, I spent ten weeks in Dar es Salaam supporting the Tanzania Country Research Team of Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), a multi-country research…
November 9, 2019
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Odiche Nwabuikwu
My summer working with RISE in Tanzania was one of the most challenging and rewarding of my life. The past ten weeks were fast paced, but they also gave unique experiences I…
November 9, 2019
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Tanzania Student Blogs: Summer 2017
gui2de interns went to Tanzania to work on the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) program. Here’s what they had to say… On the RISE:…
July 31, 2017
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Summer 2017 – East Africa
“We began to appreciate how little changes and incentives, if carefully thought out, can have a big impact on people’s lives.” During the Summer 2017 term,…
July 14, 2017
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Paula Mian – Tanzania
Before boarding the plane to Dar Es Salaam, in beautiful Tanzania, I truly had no idea how much my life was about to change. After having finished my first year in grad school, I…
November 30, 2016
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Summer 2016 – East Africa
During the Summer 2016 term, several undergraduate and graduate students from the economics department at Georgetown and the McCourt School of Public Policy traveled to…
November 30, 2016