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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Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030

Christopher Golden

Vol. 6, Pages 105-116

Due to complex interactions, changes in any one area of food systems are likely to impact—and possibly depend on—changes in other areas. Here we present the first annual…

Applied Political Analysis for Health System Reform

Michael Reich

Understanding and managing the political context of health policies is crucial to improving the chances of effectively designing, adopting, and implementing health policies and…

Effects of comprehensive smoke-free legislation on smoking behaviours and macroeconomic outcomes in Shanghai, China: a difference-in-differences analysis and modelling study

Winnie Yip

Vol. 9, Issue 12

Background: China has one of the highest levels of tobacco consumption globally, and there is no national smoke-free legislation. Although more than 20 Chinese cities have passed…

The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice

Aisha Khizar Yousafzai

Vol. 404, Issue 10467

Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in…

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…

Double Standard: Economic Policy is Mostly Industrial Policy

Celestin Monga

The world faces a conflux of powerful forces of change. Digital technologies and advances in artificial intelligence are transforming markets, economies, and societies. Global…

Government Performance and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries during Covid-19

Vincent Pons

Vol. 86, Issue 4

Crises of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic may plausibly affect deep-seated attitudes of a large fraction ofcitizens. In particular, outcome-oriented theories imply that…

Improving primary healthcare with generative AI

Winnie Yip

Vol. 30, Issue 10, Pages 2727-2728

Studies in China show how large language models can improve primary healthcare systems, but equitably scaling this technology will require attention to rural, low-resource…

Projected health and economic effects of a pan-tuberculosis treatment regimen: a modelling study

Nicolas Menzies

Vol. 12, Issue 10, Pages e1629-e1637

Background: A pan-tuberculosis regimen that could be initiated without knowledge of drug susceptibility has been proposed as an objective of tuberculosis regimen development. We…

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…

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