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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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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…
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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…
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Goodarz Danaei
Vol. 5, Issue 4, Pages e0004388
Undernutrition in early childhood is associated with adverse health and developmental outcomes later in life and remains a persistent global public health problem. Providing small…
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Alicia Yamin
Vol. 53, Issue S1, Pages 66-68
This article first describes shifts in human rights law that have led to improvements in the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) over the last decade.…
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Christopher Golden
Vol. 6, Pages 105-116
Due to complex interactions, changes in any one area of food systems are likely to impact—and possibly depend on—changes in other areas. Here we present the first annual…
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Nicolas Menzies
Vol. 22, Issue 1, Pages e1004502
Background: Globally, over one-third of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) disease diagnoses are made based on clinical criteria after a negative bacteriological test result. There is…
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Ana Langer
Vol. 20, Issue 1, Pages e0317095
In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) released global targets and strategies for reducing maternal mortality in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) period developed…
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Mashail Malik
Vol. 86, Issue 1
In developing countries, in-person surveys are frequently conducted in the presence of respondents’ family, friends, or neighbors. What effect, if any, does their presence have on…
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Ana Langer
Vol. 21, Issue 12, Pages e1004476
Background: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 5.6.2 is the "Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15…
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Michael Reich
Understanding and managing the political context of health policies is crucial to improving the chances of effectively designing, adopting, and implementing health policies and…