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The Harvard Center for International Development is home to faculty affiliates from each school at Harvard University, working across sectors in developing nations around the world.

Faculty research is published in a wide range of academic and policy venues and can be found through the feed and filters below. Select faculty research papers are highlighted in our Faculty Research Insights series on our blog, CID Voices.

CID working papers published by Harvard faculty, graduate students, and research fellows prior to 2024 can be found here

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Edward L. Glaeser
Working Paper No. 33608
In the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the share of entrepreneurs who are women first rises and then falls with national income, which reverses the well-known U-shaped relationship…
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Elhanan Helpman
Vol. 152, Pages 104007
Empirical studies have found that enhanced foreign competition can encourage or discourage innovation. To address this relationship, I examine a market structure in which a small…
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Oleg Itskhoki
We use a general open-economy wedge-accounting framework to characterize the set of shocks that can account for major exchange rate puzzles. Focusing on a near-autarky behavior of…
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Bruno S. Sergi
Vol. 135
Low reporting quality, as demonstrated by lower earnings informativeness, can exacerbate the information asymmetry gap, particularly in emerging markets. Although recent research…
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David Yang
Working Paper No. 32193
Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries, especially the US. This paper investigates the international…
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Dwight H. Perkins
Vol. 31, Issue 1, Pages 22-43
This essay focuses on three broad sets of issues that may not slow China's GDP growth to under 3 percent a year, but they will almost certainly create major social and physical…
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Dwight H. Perkins
Vol. 462
Vietnam today is seen by many as another Asian economic tiger that is moving rapidly from a poor rural society to a modern middle-income country with an economy dominated by…
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Dwight H. Perkins
Post-independence Malaysia has achieved significant economic growth: faster than that of most of the developing countries of Africa and Latin America, slower than the tiger…