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 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 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.