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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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Inflation Isn’t Recession. The Chances of a Downturn Are Lower Than People Think.
Jeffrey Frankel
U.S. consumer sentiment by one measure is at its lowest level since 2011. More Americans say they hear mostly negative news about the economy than hear positive news, or a balance…
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Get Ready for Reverse Currency Wars
Jeffrey Frankel
With elevated global inflation likely to persist for some time, the prospect of competitive exchange-rate appreciations is looming larger. Instead of a race to the bottom in the…
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The west can cut its energy dependency on Russia and be greener
Jeffrey Frankel
The Ukraine war has focused minds on win-win policies from ending coal and oil subsidies to raising petrol taxes on petrol
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The Reversal Problem: Development Going Backwards: Development Going Backwards
Carmen Reinhart
COVID-19 deepened and accelerated a troubling trend of economic backsliding that had appeared around half a decade earlier. We call this the Reversal Problem.
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Is Another Food Crisis Unfolding?
Carmen Reinhart
Rising real food prices are an exceptionally regressive shock—both within countries as well as across them.
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What do ordinary Russians really think about the war in Ukraine?
Pippa Norris
Survey evidence suggests that a majority of Russian citizens support Vladimir Putin’s decision to use military force in Ukraine. Kseniya Kizilova and Pippa Norris assess whether…
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Fighting the Last Inflation War
Jeffrey Frankel
In the decade that followed the 2008 global financial crisis, some central banks overestimated the dangers of inflation and pursued unnecessarily tight monetary policies. In 2021…
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Are Vaccination Mandates Government Overreach?
Jeffrey Frankel
Many may judge that, in the cases of existing compulsory immunization programs and other health-related regulations, the benefits of government intervention outweigh the costs. If…
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America’s False Imbalance Syndrome
Jeffrey Frankel
US media often report that a particular policy is generally considered bad or unpopular, when in reality it seeks to achieve a reasonable trade-off between competing forces or…
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Statistics And the Pandemic
Jeffrey Frankel
Data are critical to fighting COVID-19, but cross-country comparisons have consistently focused too much on the wrong sort. This has given some political leaders a strong…