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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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Ricardo Hausmann
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Working Paper No. RWP22-016
We revisit the well-known fact that richer countries tend to produce a larger variety of goods and analyze economic development through (export) diversifcation. We show that…
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We analyze the effects of bans on exports at the level of 5000 products and show how our results can inform economic sanctions against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. We…
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Vol. 153, Pages 105819
Highlights • Fighting a pandemic in poor countries may involve not just a trade-off between lives and livelihoods, but an even more horrible trade-off between lives lost due to…
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Vol. 51, Issue 3, Pages 104450
Highlights • Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time. • This brief introduction to economic…
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Vol. 376, Issue 6592, Pages 469
Oil and gas exports represent Russia’s key geopolitical strength, as well as its major source of hard currency revenues (1–3). At current prices, these are estimated at around US$…
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Following the Russian aggression against Ukraine, major sanctions have been imposed by Western countries, most notably with the aim of limiting Russia’s access to hard…
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After a large growth acceleration within the context of the commodity supercycle (2000-2015), Namibia has been grappling with three interrelated challenges: economic growth,…
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This report aims to answer the critical but difficult question: "What will it take for Jordan to grow?" Though Jordan has numerous active growth and reform strategies in place,…
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Current demand and supply dynamics mean that a punitive tax on Russian oil would be both onerous for Russia and profitable for the rest of the world, making it more credible and…
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In the thirty years that have passed since independence, Namibia has been characterized by its over-reliance on its mineral resource wealth, procyclicality of macroeconomic policy…