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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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Alicia Yamin
Vol. 406, Issue 10499, Pages 108-110
The administration of US President Donald Trump has launched a full-fledged assault on science and public health; its “flood the zone” strategy created chaos and initially…
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Alicia Yamin
Vol. 18, Issue 2
During the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, trust in governments and between individuals was associated with lower rates of infections and mortality. Thus, understanding the…
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David Yang
Working Paper No. 34006
An interconnected world increases economic efficiency while giving certain countries leverage over others. We aim to describe and understand international power stemming from…
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David Yang
Vol. 133, Issue 7
Governments use policy experiments to facilitate learning, but the nature and effects of these experiments remain unclear. We analyze China's policy experimentation since 1980—…
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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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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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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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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.…