As part of my senior thesis in Mechanical Engineering, I embarked on a mission to address a persistent challenge faced by small-scale…
Emerging Epicenters and a New World OrderA New World Order is emerging, says business and public policy professor and CID faculty affiliate…
This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new…
In the face of the trifecta of fiscal adversity currently facing governments as
a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this report brings good…
Social network approaches have much to offer for the study of African politics. This research note explores the tensions and benefits of…
War is an inherently social process, from the mobilization of new, armed organizations, to the relational aftershocks of violence affecting…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
The power of Pan-Africanism as a guiding vision for the continent’s development is widely studied, mostly as an aspirational phenomenon. At…
In 2014 the African Union adopted a 10-year Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024). The strategy provides a…
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I am an Assistant Professor in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.…