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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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Brian Trelstad
There once was a time when “start-up” clearly referred to a new venture that sold a product, looked for investors, and aimed to turn a profit. A nonprofit was a…
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Jeffrey Frankel
Even if they manage to convince their creditors to restructure their debts, commodity-exporting debtor countries are still vulnerable to sudden price fluctuations. Commodity bonds…
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Eliana La Ferrara
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We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While the intermediate action may facilitate…
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Ana Langer
Vol. 18, Issue 4, Pages e0283029
Background: Midwives' authorization to deliver the seven basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC) functions is a core policy indicator in global monitoring frameworks,…
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Michael Woolcock
All development is about people: the transformative process to equip, link, and enable groups of people to drive change and create something new to benefit society. Development…
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Meghan O'Sullivan
Vol. 102, Issue 3, Pages 104-119
As recently as 18 months ago, many policymakers, academics, and pundits in the United States and Europe were waxing lyrical about the geopolitical benefits of the coming…
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Marcella Alsan
Vol. 388, Issue 14, Pages 1252-1254
Marginalized racial and ethnic groups, women, and other historically disenfranchised populations are substantially underrepresented in clinical trials, despite increasing concern…
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Ana Langer
Vol. 18, Issue 4, Pages e0284034
Background: A global midwifery shortage hampers the goal of ending preventable maternal/newborn mortality and stillbirths. Whether current measures of midwifery workforce adequacy…
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Carmen Reinhart
The global economy has witnessed great economic volatility in the first two decades of the 21st century. Yet over this period, and in particular during Covid-19, exchange rates…