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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 Future of Multilateralism and Global Development: Opportunities for Constitutive and Functional Reform
Michael Woolcock
Vol. 3, Issue 1, Pages 57594
In response to the numerous challenges facing contemporary multilateral organizations, and indeed the very idea of multilateralism itself, many have called for “wholesale change”…
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Innovations in Translation, Advocacy, and Engagement in Global Development
Michael Woolcock
The notion of development influences and is influenced by all aspects of human life. Social science is but one representational option among many for conveying the myriad ways in…
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Will It Work Here? Using Case Studies to Generate ‘Key Facts’ About Complex Development Programs
Michael Woolcock
Over the last two decades, social scientists across the disciplines have worked tirelessly to enhance the precision of claims made about the impact of development projects,…
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Using Case Studies for Organizational Learning in Development Agencies
Michael Woolcock
Sarah Glavery and her coauthors draw a distinction between explicit knowledge, which is easily identified and shared through databases and reports, and tacit knowledge, the less…
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The Case for Case Studies: Methods and Applications in International Development
Michael Woolcock
This book seeks to narrow two gaps: first, between the widespread use of case studies and their frequently “loose” methodological moorings; and second, between the scholarly…
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Using Case Studies to Enhance the Quality of Explanation and Implementation
Michael Woolcock
The opening chapter provides a brief outline of the conventional division of labor between qualitative and quantitative methods in the social sciences. It sketches the main…
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New Mediums, Better Messages?: How Innovations in Translation, Engagement, and Advocacy are Changing International Development
Michael Woolcock
The notion of development influences and is influenced by all aspects of human life. Social science is but one representational option among many for conveying the myriad ways in…
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The Sounds of Development: Musical Representation as (An)other Source of Development Knowledge
Michael Woolcock
o our knowledge there has been little research to date on the relationship between international development and popular music—for example, on the ways in which familiar…
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Measuring What Matters: Principles for a Balanced Data Suite That Prioritizes Problem-Solving and Learning
Michael Woolcock
Responding effectively and with professional integrity to the many challenges of public administration requires recognizing that access to more and better quantitative data is…
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The Sounds of Development: Musical Representations as (An)other Source of Development Knowledge
Michael Woolcock
Vol. 57, Issue 8, Pages 1397-1412
The experience of development, as well as understandings of and responses to it, are uniquely rendered through popular culture generally, and popular music in particular. Music…