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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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Raffaella Sadun
Working Paper No. 25-033
Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages of development led by the right CEOs, and if not, why? We…
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Jaya Wen
When tariffs are levied against a specific country, that country might attempt to circumvent the tariff by rerouting products through a third country to avoid the higher taxes.…
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Jaya Wen
Our work explores the extent of trade rerouting through Vietnam during the 2018–2019 US-China trade war. We found that the level of rerouting varied significantly depending on the…
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Bruno S. Sergi
The Global South consists of emerging nations with increasing economic and political strength, drawing attention to their unique leadership challenges and opportunities. Visionary…
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Raffaella Sadun
Vol. 121, Issue 45, Pages e2412205121
A country’s national income broadly depends on the quantity and quality of workers and capital. But how well these factors are managed within and between firms may be a key…
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Christopher Golden
Vol. 5, Pages 811-817
Food systems drive human and environmental change, reflect diverse cultural and ecological contexts, and, in their diversity, can bolster nutrition and planetary health. Ignoring…
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Tarun Khanna
Working Paper No. 725-381
Zipline initially established the world's largest logistics network in Rwanda and Ghana by delivering medical supplies to hospitals via automated drones from a centralized hub.…
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Dani Rodrik
Vol. 40, Pages 256-268
We advance principles for the construction of a stable and broadly beneficial world order that does not require significant commonality in interests and values among states. In…
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Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper studies people’s understanding of inflation–their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs–and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new,…
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Luis M. Viceira
Using a large panel of U.S. brokerage accounts trades and positions, we show that a large fraction of retail investors trade as contrarians after large earnings surprises,…