Kenya

Kenya enters the wiki through Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School) as a major Development Economics and Randomized Controlled Trials case. Planet Money uses [[BusiaKenya|Busia]], near the Uganda border, to explain how school, health, and poverty interventions became testable policy questions.

The episode also uses Kenya as a civic-participation contrast. Tavneet Suri says voter turnout and willingness to stand in long lines signal a desire to participate, tying civic energy to the entrepreneurial spirit discussed in the Nigeria segment.

In arms’ way: Gaza-deal sticking points adds a media-infrastructure branch. Kenya is one of the countries trialing [[DABRadioCapacityExpansion|DAB radio]] as part of the episode’s African Radio Resilience story, where crowded airwaves and continuing radio demand make broadcast capacity a live issue.

Connections

• Busia, Kenya - local research hub in the source.
• Michael Kremer, Carol Nkesa, Ted Miguel, and Pascaline Dupas - people tied to the Busia research ecosystem.
• Deworming as Human Capital Investment, Remedial Education Targeting, and Development Research Ethics - main Kenya-side concepts.
• African Radio Resilience, Low-Data Media Access, and DAB Radio Capacity Expansion - media-access branch added by the later source.