Faculty Publications

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.

CID Faculty Research Insights

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Around the Globe, Governments Lean into AI

Mark Esposito

Vol. 10, Issue 3

Governments around the globe are in a high-stakes race to develop cutting-edge AI systems. But how exactly are they using the technology for their own operations, and what might…

Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI

Rembrand Koning

Working Paper No. 25-023

Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in…

Gestational weight gain at the national, regional, and income group levels based on 234 national household surveys from 70 low-income and middle-income countries

Wafaie W. Fawzi

Vol. 4, Issue 9

Gestational weight gain (GWG) estimates enable the identification of populations of women at risk for adverse outcomes. We described GWG distribution in low- and middle-income…

The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty

Rifat A. Atun

Vol. 8, Issue 5

Evidence on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor prevalence among adults living below the World Bank's international line for extreme poverty (those with income $1.90 per day…

Analysing governments' progress on the right to health

Alicia Yamin

Objective To examine the influence of varying articulations of the right to health under domestic constitutions, legislation and jurisprudence on the scope of legal protection for…

Hypertension care cascades and reducing inequities in cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries

Stéphane Verguet

Vol. 30, Issue 2, Pages 414-423

Improving hypertension control in low- and middle-income countries has uncertain implications across socioeconomic groups. In this study, we simulated improvements in the…

Political economy of refugees: How responsibility shapes the politics of education

Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Vol. 173

In this theory generating article, we take up the question of what shapes the role of host governments in social service provision for refugees, using the case of education. We…

Investing in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors

Stéphane Verguet

Vol. 8, Issue 12

Public policies often aim to improve welfare, economic injustice and reduce inequality, particularly in the social protection, labour, health and education sectors. While these…

Investing in school systems: conceptualising returns on investment across the health, education and social protection sectors

Stéphane Verguet

Vol. 8, Issue 12, Pages e012545

Public policies often aim to improve welfare, economic injustice and reduce inequality, particularly in the social protection, labour, health and education sectors. While these…

Education for Refugees: Building Durable Futures?

Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Vol. 36, Issue 4, Pages 587-603

Education is one of the key tools of nation-building, as it aims to create future citizens. Yet what happens in seemingly ‘futureless’ contexts where refugees cannot access even…

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