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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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Technology, Policy, Jobs; Multilateralism: Geopolitics, Governance, and the Global Commons
Robert Lawrence
I wanted to very briefly touch on my topic, which is technology, policy, and jobs. I'd like to talk about the employment dimension of technological changes that we've experienced…
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Behind the Curve: Can Manufacturing Still Provide Inclusive Growth?
Robert Lawrence
Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined as a share of GDP over recent decades, darkening opportunities for middle-class advancement. Similar…
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Populist opposition is threatening progress on climate change
Robert Lawrence
Driven by the push to decarbonize the world and achieve net zero emissions by 2050, a new anti-elite revolt is in the making in developed economies: If mainstream parties ignore…
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Climate action: Implications for factor market reallocation
Robert Lawrence
This paper considers climate policies, not from the perspective of their environmental impacts, but rather their likely effects on labor and investments. While the aggregate…
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New rules for a challenged trading system: the role of safeguards
Robert Lawrence
This chapter draws attention to the potential of safeguards in a system with a variable geometry. Section 1 considers the benefits from safeguards, but also the need to discipline…
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Behind the Curve: Can Manufacturing Still Provide Inclusive Growth?
Robert Lawrence
Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined over recent decades, darkening opportunities for middle-class advancement. The same trend has…
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How to save the WTO with more flexible trading rules
Robert Lawrence
The clash between the Western and Chinese economic systems is threatening the world trading system, with countries increasingly using trade as a tool to coerce other countries. It…
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Have trade agreements been bad for America?
Robert Lawrence
Many Americans are persuaded that trade agreements of the last 40 years have been a costly mistake. To be sure, open markets leave some people behind, and promises to help those…
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The unappreciated trend toward unilateral trade liberalization
Robert Lawrence
As frequently voiced complaint from the Trump administration was that US firms have faced a competitive disadvantage in exports because the US market is open and US tariffs are…
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Memo to the European Commission on the future of European trade policy
Robert Lawrence
The announced intention of President-elect Joe Biden to strengthen US alliances and participate in international institutions offers an opportunity for the European Union to set…