Striking Out

Welcome. I will be writing mostly about my research interests, which include poverty and inequality, migration, decentralisation, public service delivery, and the MDGs.

I arrived in Lubumbashi 2 weeks ago for fieldwork. I spent the first week talking to professors at UNILU, fishing through libraries, and getting to know the city. Week two was reserved for meeting with government officials in all of the various municipal service sectors. However, they have been on strike. This has given me the chance to do all kinds of things that I'm sure will prove central to my research, like visit the art museum and the zoo, find a Swahili teacher, and start a blog.