Tag: Uganda

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Student Blogs

Uganda Student Blogs: Summer 2017

It is early July and we have been in Uganda for a little over a month now. Five weeks ago, we stepped off of our planes at Entebbe International Airport into a country we knew…

July 31, 2017

Student Blogs

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

Student Blogs

Kaitlyn Turner – Uganda

The summer between McCourt School of Public Policy graduate school years, I interned for gui2de on their road safety project Zusha! In Uganda. By the end of my first year at…

December 1, 2016

Student Blogs

Beatrice Leydier – Uganda

Kampala,  I’ve sacrificed three pairs of shoes to your dusty roads and muddy streets, but this is merely the visible side of the mark you imprinted on me. The permanent…

November 30, 2016

Student Blogs

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

Student Blogs

Student Interns

Kazuyoshi Hirohata Kazuyoshi is a second-year Masters student of International Development Policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy. Prior to attending Georgetown, …

August 19, 2014