What is CID's Global Internship Program?
Each summer, the CID Global Internship Program provides international development internship and…
The idea of meritocracy, in its changed positive sense, has become popular in much of Asia and in the two mega-economies of the region,…
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Research Summary
The microfinance “group lending” approach has achieved widespread success in promoting high rates of repayment, and thus…
Harvard Kennedy School professor and CID faculty affiliate Rema Hanna has long been interested in questions of human and civil rights…
Over the summer of 2023, I worked with the climate team at the Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia under the…
On March 24, 2023, Harvard’s Center for International Development and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute co-hosted a…
Experimental evidence from Pakistan shows distance poses a large and discontinuous access constraint: women with village-based training…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
Taiwan has inherent military value, and thus its fate will in large part determine the U.S. military’s ability to operate in the region. As…
The authors emphasize that the world urgently requires trillions of dollars to invest in climate action and biodiversity protection to keep…