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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
Advances in the scale and sophistication of individual income data compiled across high-income countries have enabled researchers to measure inequality and intergenerational…
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Ricardo Hausmann
Wyoming is facing two distinct labor market challenges: in the short-term, low workforce availability is a constraint while in the long-term job and wage growth have stagnated. An…
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Dani Rodrik
Manufacturing generates very little employment in the developing world. Urban jobs are predominantly informal, unproductive, and in services. It seems unlikely that manufacturing…
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This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple…
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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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Dani Rodrik
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We advance principles for the construction of a stable and broadly beneficial world order that does not require significant commonality in interests and values among states. In…
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Ricardo Hausmann
Economic development is a path-dependent process in which countries accumulate capabilities that allow them to move into more complex products and industries. Inspired by a theory…
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Carmen Reinhart
We study sovereign external debt crises over the past 200 years, with a focus on creditor losses, or “haircuts”. Our sample covers 327 sovereign debt restructurings with external…
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Carmen Reinhart
This paper investigates the economic and social consequences of sovereign default on external debt. We focus on the crises’ impact on real per capita GDP, infant mortality, life…
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Dani Rodrik
The future of developing countries is in services as that that is where the jobs will be. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services must be an essential priority, for…