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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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Inequalities in tuberculosis control in Ethiopia: A district-level distributional modelling analysis
Stéphane Verguet
Vol. 30, Issue 1, Pages 31-42
Background: Implementation studies indicate that the addition of tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment services into the community health extension workers' tasks—that is ‘task-…
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The economic value of reducing mortality due to noncommunicable diseases and injuries
Stéphane Verguet
Vol. 30, Pages 3335–3344
With population aging, national health systems face difficult trade-offs in allocating resources. The World Bank launched the Healthy Longevity Initiative to generate evidence for…
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Extended cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions to improve uptake of diabetes services in South Africa
Stéphane Verguet
Vol. 39, Issue 3, Pages 253-267
The rising prevalence of diabetes in South Africa (SA), coupled with significant levels of unmet need for diagnosis and treatment, results in high rates of diabetes-associated…
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Hypertension care cascades and reducing inequities in cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries
Stéphane Verguet
Vol. 30, Issue 2, Pages 414-423
Improving hypertension control in low- and middle-income countries has uncertain implications across socioeconomic groups. In this study, we simulated improvements in the…
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Evolution in key indicators of maternal and child health across the wealth gradient in 41 sub-Saharan African countries, 1986-2019
Stéphane Verguet
Vol. 22, Issue 1
Background: Aggregate trends can be useful for summarizing large amounts of information, but this can obscure important distributional aspects. Some population subgroups can be…
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Investing in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors
Stéphane Verguet
Vol. 8, Issue 12
Public policies often aim to improve welfare, economic injustice and reduce inequality, particularly in the social protection, labour, health and education sectors. While these…
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Investing in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors
Stéphane Verguet
Vol. 8, Issue 12, Pages e012545
Public policies often aim to improve welfare, economic injustice and reduce inequality, particularly in the social protection, labour, health and education sectors. While these…
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Economic Growth and Childhood Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Stéphane Verguet
Vol. 6, Issue 11
Importance: Economic growth may reduce childhood malnutrition through improvements of several contributing factors, but the empirical evidence is mixed. Identifying the most…
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Financial hardship associated with catastrophic out-of-pocket spending tied to primary care services in low- and lower-middle-income countries: findings from a modeling study
Stéphane Verguet
Vol. 21, Issue 1
Background: Financial risk protection (FRP) is a key component of universal health coverage (UHC): all individuals must be able to obtain the health services they need without…
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Universal free school meals: the future of school meal programmes?
Stéphane Verguet
Vol. 402