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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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Working Paper No. 25-064
Political speech by firms is increasingly common around the world. This paper examines the government as an important, yet understudied, audience for such speech, focusing on how…
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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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Working Paper No. 138
This paper investigates the historical origins of female genital cutting (FGC). We test the historical hypothesis that FGC is associated with the Red Sea route of the African…
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Aisha Khizar Yousafzai
Vol. 11
The quality of relationships between health care professionals (HCPs) and patients is an important factor influencing people's experiences with their health systems. In Pakistan,…
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Aisha Khizar Yousafzai
Vol. 5, Issue 4
Young key populations-sex workers and men who have sex with men (MSM)-face significant barriers to accessing HIV care in Chad due to stigma, discrimination, and socio-economic…
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Ebehi Iyoha
Working Paper No. 25-048
This paper explores the impact of recent changes in the US trade policy environment on small businesses. Drawing on a survey of more than 4,000 small businesses conducted between…
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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…
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Aisha Khizar Yousafzai
Vol. 10, Issue 3
Adolescents and young adults (AYA) aged 15–24 years account for nearly half of all new HIV infections globally, with over 80% residing in sub-Saharan Africa, where AIDS is a…
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Raffaella Sadun
Working Paper No. 25-033
Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages of development led by the right CEOs, and if not, why? We…
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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…