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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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Michael Woolcock
Vol. 50, Issue 3, Pages 381-392
Our lives are remembered as an assemblage of overlapping stories – some of them prosaic and unremarkable, others more fraught, contingent and consequential – but most remain…
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Michael Woolcock
While in principle fiscal policy in all countries is a central component of the “long route of accountability” binding citizens and the state, in fragile states the political…
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Michael Woolcock
Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity Reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal of reducing extreme poverty to 3 percent…
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Michael Woolcock
Vol. 2, Pages 81-89
Many development agencies and governments now seek to engage directly with local communities, whether as a means to the realization of more familiar goals (infrastructure,…
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Michael Woolcock
In work undertaken over the past decade with my colleagues Matt Andrews and Lant Pritchett, we have sought to address three big-picture issues pertaining to policy implementation…
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Michael Woolcock
Myanmar has undergone significant reforms in recent years. A commonly accepted view is that, unlike many of the political shifts experienced elsewhere in the world in the twenty-…
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Michael Woolcock
Introduces eight country cases from East Asia to explore how recent reforms have been undertaken in public financial management (PFM) and the public sector more broadly. A central…