Kenya

State & Hill

Learning by doing—on a global scale

May 22, 2020

By Rebecca Cohen (MPP ‘09) In 20 years of global experiences, roughly 600 Ford School students have traveled to 18 countries, not including internships or study abroad. The lessons they bring back with them have helped shape careers of...

Students enrolled in the Ford School's Chinese Policy course at the Great Wall

State & Hill

Zachary Petroni, inaugural Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship recipient, discusses the flawed conservation equation for Kenyan forest

May 5, 2014

By Zach Petroni (BA '13) Kenya's Arabuko-Sokoke Forest (ASF), the largest remnant of a hardwood forest that once spanned East Africa's coast from Somalia to southern Mozambique, is a refuge for dozens of endemic and endangered flora and fauna—the...

Zachary Petroni, inaugural Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship recipient, discusses the flawed conservation equation for Kenyan forest image

Digital democracy and Kenya: A conversation with Nanjala Nyabola and Shobita Parthasarathy

Mar 22, 2021, 11:30 am-12:30 pm EDT

Join IEDP for a conversation with Nanjala Nyabola and Shobita Parthasarathy, as they discuss the implications of our digital era on politics and policy in Kenya.

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Headshots of Nanjala Nyabola and Shobita Parthasarathy

Africa 2021, where do we go from here?

Feb 12, 2021, 11:30 am-12:30 pm EST

Join IEDP for a discussion with Kwame Owino, CEO of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), about the Kenyan policy landscape and where the region is going.

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Economic Development Seminar

Can Digital Loans Deliver?

Oct 18, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

3240 Weill Hall

Can Digital Loans Deliver? Take Up and Impacts of Digital Loans in Kenya by Prashant Bharadwaj, William Jack, Tavneet Suri

STPP Lecture Series

Digital Development: Governance, the State, and Information Technology in East Africa

Mar 19, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Weill Hall, Betty Ford Classroom

In this talk, Professor Warigia Bowman examines the policymaking and implementation processes for information and communication technologies (“ICT”) in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda from 1990 to 2015.

Economic Development Seminar

Selling Low and Buying High: An Arbitrage Puzzle in Kenyan Villages

Nov 30, 2017, 4:00-5:30 pm EST

3240 Weill Hall