Faculty Publications

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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Accountability in Developing Democracies: The Impact of the Internet, Social Media, and Polarization

Pia Raffler

Vol. 28, Pages 413-434

This article reviews the recent literature on accountability in developing democracies through the lens of two nested principal–agent problems: the relationship between voters and…

Sovereign vs. corporate debt and default: More similar than you think

Carmen Reinhart

Vol. 155, Pages 104082

Theory suggests that corporate and sovereign bonds are fundamentally different, also because sovereign debt has no bankruptcy mechanism and is hard to enforce. We show empirically…

Training within Firms

Raffaella Sadun

Working Paper No. 33670

Training investments are essential for improving worker and firm productivity, yet their implementation is often hindered by low participation rates and insufficient worker…

The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

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…

Surveillance for TB drug resistance using routine rapid diagnostic testing data: Methodological development and application in Brazil

Marcia C.de Castro, Nicolas Menzies

Vol. 20, Pages e1012662

Effectively responding to drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) requires accurate and timely information on resistance levels and trends. In contexts where use of drug susceptibility…

Global South Leadership Style: Strategies for Navigating Emerging Economies

Bruno S. Sergi

The Global South consists of emerging nations with increasing economic and political strength, drawing attention to their unique leadership challenges and opportunities. Visionary…

Growth through Diversification in Hermosillo

Ricardo Hausmann

Working Paper No. 239

In this report, we study Hermosillo's economic performance and assess critical issues affecting the city’s ability to achieve stronger economic growth. Although Hermosillo is far…

Around the Globe, Governments Lean into AI

Mark Esposito

Vol. 10, Issue 3

Governments around the globe are in a high-stakes race to develop cutting-edge AI systems. But how exactly are they using the technology for their own operations, and what might…

The international empirics of management

Raffaella Sadun

Vol. 121, Issue 45, Pages e2412205121

A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key…

Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI

Rembrand Koning

Working Paper No. 25-023

Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in…

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