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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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The west can cut its energy dependency on Russia and be greener
Jeffrey Frankel
The Ukraine war has focused minds on win-win policies from ending coal and oil subsidies to raising petrol taxes on petrol
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Fighting the Last Inflation War
Jeffrey Frankel
In the decade that followed the 2008 global financial crisis, some central banks overestimated the dangers of inflation and pursued unnecessarily tight monetary policies. In 2021…
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Are Vaccination Mandates Government Overreach?
Jeffrey Frankel
Many may judge that, in the cases of existing compulsory immunization programs and other health-related regulations, the benefits of government intervention outweigh the costs. If…
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How to set greenhouse gas emission targets for all countries
Jeffrey Frankel
Is a credible multilateral climate change agreement feasible? This column says that such global cooperation is necessary and attempts to address the political hurdles. The…
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Systematic Managed Floating
Jeffrey Frankel
A majority of countries neither freely float their currencies nor firmly peg. But most of the remainder in practice also don’t obey such well-defined intermediate exchange rate…
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America’s False Imbalance Syndrome
Jeffrey Frankel
US media often report that a particular policy is generally considered bad or unpopular, when in reality it seeks to achieve a reasonable trade-off between competing forces or…
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Statistics And the Pandemic
Jeffrey Frankel
Data are critical to fighting COVID-19, but cross-country comparisons have consistently focused too much on the wrong sort. This has given some political leaders a strong…
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What Three Economists Taught Us About Currency Regimes
Jeffrey Frankel
Today, freely floating exchange rates suit most large countries better than the late economists Richard Cooper, Robert Mundell, and John Williamson thought. But some countries do…
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Biden Administration’s Sensible Stimulus
Jeffrey Frankel
America erred in 2009-10 in curtailing the size and duration of the fiscal expansion in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Regardless of who was responsible for that mistake,…
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David vs. Goliath Narrative in GameStop Story Has Serious Flaws
Jeffrey Frankel
In the last week of January, the price of the stock in GameStop – an ailing brick-and-mortar video game retailer – soared 323% for the week and 1,700% for the month. Nothing…