Podcasts by Harvard Center for International Development
The Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University is a university-wide center that works to advance the understanding of development challenges and offer viable solutions to problems of global poverty.
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Digital Government: Foundations for Global Development and Democracy from 2022-02-14T14:48:32
This podcast was originally recorded on Friday, February 04, 2022, for the CID Speaker Series featuring Meagan Dooley, the Global Program Officer at Tetra Tech, and George Ingram, a Senior Fellow -...
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Bouncing Back Faster: Using Evidence to Ensure Resilient Macroeconomic Policies and Inclusive Growth from 2022-01-03T19:14:43
Welcome to the Harvard Center for International Development’s Beyond COVID podcast. This podcast is a series of conversations with CID faculty experts on various key dimensions of COVID response an...
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Cultivating Hospital Resilience through Informed Organizational Culture Changes from 2022-01-03T18:32:28
Welcome to the Harvard Center for International Development’s Beyond COVID podcast. This podcast is a series of conversations with CID faculty experts on various key dimensions of COVID response an...
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Using a Micro Lens to Target Macro Policy from 2021-12-15T21:17:30
Welcome to the Harvard Center for International Development’s Beyond COVID podcast. This podcast is a series of conversations with CID faculty experts on various key dimensions of COVID response an...
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Inclusive Employment for South African Youth: Lessons from Harambee from 2021-12-15T20:37:17
This podcast was originally recorded on Friday, December 3rd, 2021 for the CID Speaker Series featuring Sharmi Surianarain, Chief Impact Officer of the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator. Surian...
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The Human within the System: Analyzing Health Worker Behavior to Improve Care Quality from 2021-11-18T18:46:42
Welcome to the Harvard Center for International Development’s Beyond COVID podcast. This podcast is a series of conversations with CID faculty experts on various key dimensions of COVID response an...
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Building Resilience through Embodying the Mission of Education from 2021-11-16T15:05
Welcome to the Harvard Center for International Development’s Beyond COVID podcast. This podcast is a series of conversations with CID faculty experts on various key dimensions of COVID response an...
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Why Feminist Funding is Crucial for Development from 2021-11-02T14:17:40
This podcast was originally recorded on Friday, October 29th, 2021 for the CID Speaker Series featuring Latanya Mapp Frett, President of Global Fund for Women. Frett continued the conversation with...
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Humility and Experimentation: Empowering Local Adaptations to Improve Education Systems from 2021-11-01T19:59:41
Welcome to the Harvard Center for International Development’s Beyond COVID podcast. This podcast is a series of conversations with CID faculty experts on various key dimensions of COVID response an...
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Not Flying the Plane Blind: Tailoring Education Based on Assessment & Evaluation from 2021-10-27T16:02:15
Welcome to the Harvard Center for International Development’s Beyond COVID podcast. This podcast is a series of conversations with CID faculty experts on various key dimensions of COVID response an...
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Creating Impact at a Global Scale for Development from 2021-10-22T13:38:44
This podcast was originally recorded on Friday, October 15, 2021 for the CID Speaker Series featuring Andrew Stern, Founder and CEO of The Global Development Incubator(GDI). Stern continued the con...
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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Evidence to Drive Poverty Alleviation from 2021-10-19T20:48:01
Originally recorded on Friday, October 1, 2021 for the CID Speaker Series, featuring Dianne Calvi, President and CEO of Village Enterprise. Calvi continued the conversation with our CID Student Amb...
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Rethinking Capitalism Post-Covid: The Power of Creative Destruction from 2021-09-21T15:29:10
Originally recorded on Friday, September 17, 2021 for the CID Speaker Series, featuring ?Philippe Aghion, Professor at the College de France, at INSEAD, and at the London School of Economics. Aghio...
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Using Data to Create Effective Policy in Uncertain Times from 2021-06-10T19:58:05
Originally recorded on June 9, 2021, after CID's Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) Faculty Director Rema Hanna's appearance at the HKS Faculty Webcast Series where she moderated a panel on making d...
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Fragility & Conflict: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Poverty from 2021-05-27T15:43:26
The views expressed by the speakers are their own and do not reflect the views of the World Bank Group.
Originally recorded on April 23, 2021 for the CID Speaker Series, featuring ?Paul Co...
When the Doughnut Meets the City: Can We Create Regenerative and Distributive Local Economies? from 2021-05-10T15:16:49
Originally recorded on April 30, 2021 for the CID Speaker Series, featuring ?Kate Raworth, Economist & Co-Founder of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab. Raworth continued the conversation with our ...
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The Effects of COVID-19 on Education Systems: Insights from the Global Education Monitoring Report from 2021-04-22T20:56
Originally recorded on April 9, 2021 for the CID Speaker Series, featuring Priyadarshani Joshi, Senior Project Officer of Research with the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report.
Priy...
Incorporating Evidence in U.S. Development Policy and Programming: Advice and Insights from 2021-04-05T15:46:38
Originally recorded on March 26, 2021 for the CID Speaker Series, featuring Sarah Rose and Erin Collinson from the Center for Global Development and Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Asim I. Khwaja & ...
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The Honesty Agenda: Effective Assistance, Women’s Empowerment, and the SDGs in a Post-Covid World from 2021-03-18T15:33:47
Originally recorded on March 12, 2021
Alix Zwane, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Innovation Fund, continued the discussion after a virtual CID Speaker Series event held on March 12,...
COVID - 19 & Nutrition: Crisis And Opportunity from 2021-03-04T15:01:54
Originally recorded on February 26, 2021.
Shawn Baker, Chief Nutritionist for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) continued the discussion after a virtual CID Speaker Serie...
The Transformation of the International Finance Corporation from 2021-02-18T17:06:18
Originally recorded on February 12, 2021.
Philippe Le Houérou, former CEO of the IFC continued the discussion after a virtual CID Speaker Series event held on February 12, 2021, exploring ...
Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries from 2021-02-04T17:25:23
Originally recorded on January 29th, 2021.
Michael Clemens, Director of Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy, Center for Global Development and Thomas Ginn, Research Fellow, Ce...
Emerging Evidence On The Socio-Economic Impacts Of COVID-19 On Households from 2020-12-10T20:16:29
Originally recorded on December 4, 2020.
Carolina Sanchez-Paramo, Global Director of Poverty & Equity Global Practice at the World Bank, continues her discussion after a virtual CID Speake...
Smart Containment with Active Learning: Proposal for a Data-Responsive & Graded Approach to COVID-19 from 2020-11-30T15:51:28
Originally recorded on November 13th, 2020.
CID Director Asim I. Khwaja joined us after CID's virtual Speaker Series event for further discussion on his research proposal for governments t...
The Millions Learning Project: Scaling Quality Education to Children & Youth from 2020-11-30T15:46:59
Originally recorded on November 20, 2020
Jenny Perlman Robinson and Molly Curtiss joined us at CID's virtual Speaker Series event and sat down with us for further discussion on their work ...
Catalyzing Global Leadership to Contain the Impact of COVID-19 from 2020-10-30T18:40:43
At this week's virtual CID Speaker Series event, Catalyzing Global Leadership to Contain the Impact of COVID-19 we are joined by featured guest Peter Sands, Executive Director of The Global Fund to...
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Bringing Credibility, Discipline & Transparency to Impact Investing from 2020-10-27T17:50:11
At this week's virtual CID Speaker Series event we are joined by Neil Gregory, Chief Thought Leadership Officer of the International Finance Corporation or the private investment arm of the World B...
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A Temporary Basic Income for Developing Countries from 2020-10-21T18:45:56
On this week's Speaker Series virtual event, we were joined by George Gray Molina, Chief Economist at UN Development Programme's Global Policy Bureau. COVID-19 and the response to the pandemic is ...
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Pivoting to A New Paradigm for Reducing Climate Risk in Cities of the Global South from 2020-03-16T17:56:13
On this week's Speaker Series podcast, we are joined by Dr. Aditya Bahadur, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Earth Institute at Columbia University for a discussion on Urban Resilience Traps: Pivotin...
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Diagnosing Education Systems from 2020-03-03T15:46:05
On this week's Speaker Series podcast, we are joined by Marla Spivack, Research Fellow at CID’s Building State Capability program, and the Research Manager of the Research on Improving Systems of ...
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Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia's War from 2020-02-20T20:56:33
On this week's Speaker Series podcast, we are joined by Annette Idler, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She is also the Director of Studies a...
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Macroeconomic Stability and Long-Term Growth: Lessons from Jordan from 2020-02-12T19:08:41
On this week's Speaker Series podcast, we are joined by Miguel Angel Santos, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Director of Applied Research at CID's Grow...
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The Causes and Consequences of Brexit with Andrew Mitchell from 2020-02-06T16:42:32
On this week's Speaker Series podcast, we are joined by Rt. Hon. Andrew Mitchell, who was recently re-elected to the British House of Commons. Mitchell is a fellow at Cambridge University; a Visiti...
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The Value of Complementary Coworkers from 2020-01-08T20:17:15
In today’s world, most workers are highly specialized, but this specialization can come at a cost – especially for those on the wrong team. New research by Growth Lab Research Director Frank Neffke...
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A New Approach to Education in Pakistan: Helping Schools Help Themselves from 2019-12-16T19:39:25
On this week's Speaker Series podcast, we are joined by Zainab Qureshi, the LEAPS (Learning and Educational Achievement in Pakistan Schools) Senior Program Manager at the Center for International D...
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Information and Social Norms: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Aspirations of Saudi Women from 2019-12-05T20:34:55
How important are social constraints and information gaps about the labor market in explaining the low rates of female labor force participation (FLFP) in societies that are undergoing change, but ...
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Venture Capital in Developing Markets from 2019-12-02T15:58:31
What does it take to grow entrepreneurial ecosystems in the developing world? The talk will share some lessons from our experience at Alter across 14 markets in SE Asia and Africa. Specifically, th...
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Alice Evans on Gender and Social Change from 2019-11-21T15:52:35
Support for gender equality has increased globally, and studies of this trend usually examine individual- and/or country-level factors. However, this overlooks subnational variation. City-dwellers ...
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Transforming Humanitarian Response towards Local Humanitarian Leadership from 2019-11-07T19:44:50
We are at a crossroads in the humanitarian community. Despite global commitments made in 2016 to shift power away from international to local actors to lead during crisis response, little has chang...
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Michael Kremer In Conversation With Harvard Students from 2019-11-07T15:22:28
Harvard’s Center for International Development brought together students and scholars from across the university to celebrate 2019 Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer as he spoke about his own innovative...
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Progress and Enduring Challenges for the Health of Children in India from 2019-10-31T19:34:59
Roughly one in every five births occurs in India.? Data reveal that despite improvements in the last decade, Indian children are still among the most unhealthy in the world.? In the state of Uttar ...
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Bleeding Out from 2019-10-18T12:45:56
Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as CID Senior Research Fellow Thomas Abt writes in his new book Bleeding Out, we actually possess all th...
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From Them to Us: Power, Privilege and Responsibility in a Shrinking World from 2019-09-26T17:23
The logical extension of today’s ferment in America about white privilege and male entitlement is, at the global level, about the responsibility of the United States and its citizens to the world’s...
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Introducing the Atlas of Economic Complexity's Country Profiles from 2019-09-19T14:15:41
The creators of the Atlas of Economic Complexity - Harvard Growth Lab’s free online tool that translates economic growth research into policy actions to expand global prosperity - are proud to intr...
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2027 Global Growth Projections from 2019-08-13T12:45:22
In this podcast, Annie White and Tim Cheston discuss newly released Growth Lab research - 2027 Global Growth Projections.
The projections of annualized growth rates to 2027 are based on ...
Argentina's Aristotelian Crisis from 2019-07-19T13:44:14
Argentina is currently facing yet another economic crisis. Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Dean of the School of Government at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, believes there are deep roots in A...
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Public Policy in Action: What Did Working in Albania Teach Us about Economic Growth? from 2019-06-12T13:23:51
Since 2013, the Center for International Development has been collaborating with the Government of Albania to identify binding constraints to economic growth and create policy solutions to solve th...
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in the Americas from 2019-05-30T13:57:41
The Other Slavery examines the system of bondage that targeted Native Americans, a system that was every bit as terrible, degrading, and vast as African slavery. Anywhere between 2.5 and 5 million ...
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Empowering Women in South Asia’s Slums: The Challenges of Environmental Degradation from 2019-05-16T13:37:04
Environmental degradation reduces the environmental capacity to meet social and ecological needs of societies, which is exacerbated by natural hazards and extreme climate events, and often intensif...
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Improving Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihoods through Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Advice from 2019-05-09T19:54:52
The majority of the world’s 450 million smallholder farmers and the 2 billion people who depend on them live in rural villages in developing countries, growing crops at close to subsistence levels ...
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PDIA in Action: Challenges & Experiences from 2019-05-02T20:15:59
The Building State Capability (BSC) program at CID uses the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach to help organizations develop the capability to solve complex problems and to impleme...
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Tackling Poverty Through Diplomacy and Development from 2019-04-25T11:35:19
At a time when 65 million people are displaced from their homes and more than 800 million people go to bed hungry every night, how can we make a real difference in tackling poverty & social injusti...
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Jordan: The Elements of a Growth Strategy from 2019-04-04T18:33:55
Between 1999 and 2009, Jordan experienced a huge growth acceleration, tripling its exports and increasing income per capita by 38%. Since then, its economy has been thrown off balance, impacted by ...
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Labor Rights - It's All of our Business from 2019-03-28T17:08:47
Earlier this year, thousands of Bangladesh garment workers clashed with the police as they tried to push for higher wages. One person was killed as the police fired rubber bullets and tear gas agai...
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PDIA Alumni Series: Solving complex development problems in Nigeria from 2019-03-06T19:33:15
Salimah Samji, Building State Capability Program Director talks to Anjikwi Mshelbwala, who took the PDIA online course offered by the Building State Capability Program in the Fall of 2017.
Anj...
Syria: The Catastrophe from 2019-02-28T14:02:38
Over the last eight years, the Syrian Civil War has left millions of people internally displaced and many more have fled the country to protect themselves and their families. This humanitarian cris...
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Preventing Violence in Developing (and Developed) Countries from 2019-02-21T15:10:08
Following the brutal rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi in 2012, filmmaker Leslee Udwin traveled to India to examine the situation and attempt to understand what led to such a violent attack...
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Public Policy Failure from 2019-02-04T14:24:50
Today on this BSC podcast, Salimah Samji, Director of the Building State Capability program at CID has a conversation with Professor Matt Andrews, Faculty Director of the Building State Capability ...
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Gender and Social Change from 2019-01-10T14:29:15
Across the world, people in urban rather than rural areas are more likely to support gender equality. To explain this global trend, Alice Evans has engaged with geographically diverse literature an...
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New Pathways to Inclusive Growth: The Sri Lanka Project in Retrospect from 2018-12-05T14:51
Starting in November 2015, the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab has been engaged in economic policy research with the Government of Sri Lanka. Led by Professor Ricardo Hausmann, th...
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How Do You Mobilize Political Elites And Citizens? from 2018-11-27T13:35:47
This podcast comes from a panel discussion that took place at the Building State Capability program’s symposium on October 30th 2018. The panel discussion focused on How to Mobilize Political Elite...
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The Challenges of Driving Prosperity: Growth Diagnostics and Sustainable Development from 2018-11-21T16:33:17
Practitioners face many challenges when diagnosing growth constraints and setting a country on a path to greater prosperity - including navigating the political context and getting good policy idea...
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Afghanistan: Economic Reforms in Fragile States from 2018-11-21T14:05:24
Conducting business in fragile states can be a difficult challenge for corporations, governments, and other stakeholders alike. According to the Doing Business Indicators report by the World Bank, ...
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Politicising Inequality: The Power Of Ideas from 2018-11-15T14:15:40
A contemporary challenge is inequality, which is reinforced when it’s taken for granted. But, it can be disrupted when marginalised people gain self-esteem; challenge hitherto unquestioned inequali...
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Using Economic Evidence to Drive Policy Improvement: A Conversation with Professor Asim Khwaja from 2018-11-08T13:52:55
Today on CID’s Research Spotlight podcast, Ghazi Mirza, graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, interviews Professor Asim Khwaja, Co-Director of Evidence for Policy Design, wh...
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Hot Topics in Global Health Financing: Accountability, Transition, & the UHC Agenda from 2018-11-01T13:20:55
Since 2000, a large and complex global infrastructure has emerged to help finance public health improvement in low- and middle-income countries. These institutions have helped drive historic improv...
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PDIAtoolkit: A DIY Approach to Solving Complex Problems from 2018-10-26T12:49:46
On this week’s podcast, Salimah Samji, Director of the Building State Capability program at CID and Tim McNaught, Building State Capability Fellow, have a conversation about the recently launched P...
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Better Growth & Better Climate: The New Climate Economy from 2018-10-25T15:11:27
The New Climate Economy’s (NCE) recently released their 2018 Report on Unlocking the Inclusive Growth Story of the 21st Century: Accelerating Climate Action in Urgent Times. The key findings of the...
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Going Cashless: An Opportunity to Accelerate Progress on the 2030 SDG's from 2018-10-18T13:16:46
Billions of dollars in cash payments are made daily in emerging and developing economies, including payment of salaries, social welfare and business transactions. The problem with these cash paymen...
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The International Rules-Based System is Broken: What is to be Done? from 2018-10-11T14:20:36
Since the end of the Second World War, the international rules-based system has been determined by developed countries with economic power who came together to form multilateral organizations like ...
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The Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela: A Conversation with Jose Miguel Vivanco from 2018-10-04T15:05:31
The current exodus of Venezuelans has generated the largest migration crisis of its kind in recent Latin American history, as Human Rights Watch has pointed out in its most recent report. More than...
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Building State Capability - Creating Public Value Course Promo from 2018-09-24T13:35:17
On this week’s podcast, Salimah Samji, Director of the Building State Capability program at CID, interviews Mark Moore, Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who will be teaching the new Building...
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Fool's Gold: On the Impact of Venezuelan Devaluations in Multinational Stock Prices from 2018-08-09T15:47:40
For over ten years, Venezuela has been plagued with a deep economic and political crisis that has also recently transpired into a humanitarian issue. In the past five years, GDP has gone down over ...
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Designing a Problem-Driven Donor-Funded Project in Mozambique from 2018-06-29T15:02:02
Many government policies and reforms fail in developing countries. Research at the Center for International Development’s Building State Capability program (or BSC) ties such failure to the tendenc...
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Rules vs. Responsiveness: The Challenges of Building State Capability in India from 2018-06-28T14:30:37
Public organizations often have trouble implementing the policies and programs that will benefit the state and its constituents and the public sector in India is no exception. The perception of the...
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Preparing For The Next Pandemic - Whose Responsibility Is It? from 2018-06-21T18:17:14
CID Student Ambassador Abeela Latif interviews Susan Scribner, Director of the Preparedness and Response Project at DAI. She discusses the risks that contribute to a pandemic, interventions to miti...
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Informing Budget Reform in Mozambique: The Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation Approach from 2018-06-14T17:22:45
Building State capability program Director, Salimah Samji, interviews Matt Andrews, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School on the first report of the PDIA in Practice Series. Th...
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Revolutionizing the World of Development Practice at CID: An Interview with Ricardo Hausmann from 2018-06-08T17:55:57
CID Student Ambassador Alexandra Gonzalez interviews Ricardo Hausmann, Director of CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School. Ricardo discusses how he ...
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Does the Sri Lankan Economy Need More University Graduates? from 2018-05-31T14:10:56
CID Research Assistant Sehar Noor interviews Ljubica Nedelkoska, Research Fellow at CID, who discusses the Growth Lab project in Sri Lanka and more specifically her research findings titled “Does S...
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Challenges of Latin America under the New Normal from 2018-05-24T13:29:50
CID Student Ambassador Patrick Hannahan interviews Carlos Fernández Valdovinos, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay, he discusses the challenges faced by Latin American countries in the new gl...
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Preventing Violence in Caracas: A Community-Based, Evidence-Informed Approach from 2018-05-17T13:00:56
This week, CID Student Ambassador Emily Ausubel interviews Roberto Patiño, Founder & CEO of Caracas Mi Convive, and Thomas Abt, Senior Research Fellow at CID, they discuss the role of community-bas...
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Using and Generating Evidence for Policymaking: Security Interventions in Bogota from 2018-05-10T16:11:05
This week, CID Senior Research Fellow Thomas Abt interviews Daniel Mejia, Secretary of Security of Bogota, and Chris Blattman, Professor at University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. D...
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Harvard’s Center for International Development 2026 Global Growth Projections from 2018-05-03T19:37:32
CID Communications Manager, Chuck McKenney talks to CID Research Fellows Sebastian Bustons and Tim Cheston about the recently released 2026 Global Growth Projections. These projections of annualize...
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Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work from 2018-05-02T16:55:07
Building State Capability Program Director Salimah Samji interviews Dan Honig, author of the recently published book “Navigation by judgement – why and when top down management of foreign aid doesn...
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Delivering life-saving medical commodities in the developing world from 2018-04-26T13:54:04
CID Student Ambassador Alexandra Gonzalez interviews Jamey Butcher, Executive Vice-President of Chemonics. Jamey talks about the role Chemonics place in international development and the Global Hea...
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One More Resource Curse: Dutch disease and export concentration from 2018-04-12T18:35:46
CID Student Ambassador Abeela Latif, interviews Dany Bahar, Research Fellow at Brookings Institution and Associate at Harvard’s Center for International Development and Miguel Angel Santos, Adjunct...
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Growth Diagnostics in Real Life: CID’s Project in Sri Lanka from 2018-03-29T15:31:20
CID Student Ambassador Emily Ausubel interviews Tim O’Brien and Dan Stock, research fellows here at Harvard’s Center for International Development. Tim and Dan talk about the Center’s project in Sr...
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Doing Development Differently: The Building State Capability Program and the PDIA Methodology from 2018-03-23T18:17:18
CID Student Ambassador Emily Ausubel interviews Salimah Samji, Director of the Building State Capability Program at Harvard University and Matt Andrews, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harv...
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Accountability in Education: The 2018 Global Education Monitoring Report from 2018-03-15T16:29:34
CID Student Ambassador Abeela Latif interviews Priyadarshani Joshi, Research Officer at UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report team. Priya talks about the main takeaways from the 2018 Global E...
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Bank Regulation meets Human Rights – How Can Bank Regulators Make the World a Better Place? from 2018-03-08T23:27:11
CID Student Ambassador Alexandra Gonzalez interviews Daniel Shydlowski, Former Superintendent of Banking, Insurance and Private Retirement Funds in Peru. Daniel talks about how bank regulators can ...
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Tertiary Education and the Sustainable Development Goals from 2018-03-01T15:45:59
CID Student Ambassador Abeela Latif interviews Jamil Salmi, Global Tertiary Education Expert. Jamil talks about the role of the private sector in advancing tertiary education about the global regio...
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Government Strategies for Diaspora Engagement - Pandeli Majko, Albania's Minister of Diaspora from 2018-02-22T17:57:09
CID research fellow Ljubica Nedelkoska interviews Minister Pandeli Majko, Minister of Diaspora at the Republic of Albania. The Minister talks about the recently created Diaspora ministry, about the...
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Cambiando Esclusas en Panamá: Recomendaciones para un Crecimiento Sustentable e Inclusivo from 2018-02-08T20:16:10
Alexandra Gonzalez, estudiante embajadora del CID, entrevista a Miguel Angel Santos, Profesor Adjunto de Políticas Públicas en la escuela de política de Harvard e investigador senior en el Centro p...
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Shifting gears in Panama: Policy Recommendations for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth from 2018-02-08T20:03:21
CID Student Ambassador Alexandra Gonzalez interviews Miguel Angel Santos, Adjunct Professor in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Development...
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Does US development policy have a future under Trump? from 2017-12-07T17:48:16
CID Student Ambassador Emily Ausubel interviews Todd Moss, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Todd talks about th...
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Education in Pakistan: What works to improve learning outcomes? from 2017-11-30T17:09:16
CID Student Ambassador Abeela Latif interviews Niharika Singh, Ph.D. Student Affiiate, and Zainab Qureshi, Senior Program Manager, both at Harvard University's Evidence for Policy Design Program.
Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution: Key Trends Emerging in the New Digital World from 2017-11-09T14:31:53
CID Student Ambassador Patrick Hannahan interviews Victoria White, Managing Director of Global Advisory Solutions at Accion. Victoria talks about how Accion and its partners are harnessing key digi...
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The Drivers of International Development from 2017-11-02T15:07:09
CID Student Ambassador Emily Ausubel interviews Andrew Mitchell, British MP and Former Secretary of State for International Development. Mr. Mitchell talks about his extensive experience in Interna...
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How did Venezuela Degenerate Into a Failed State and How Can it Recover? from 2017-10-26T14:12:08
Alexandra Gonzalez, CID student ambassador, interviews Douglas Barrios and Ricardo Villasmil research fellows at CID. Douglas and Ricardo shed some light on Venezuela's ongoing socioeconomic and po...
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¿Cómo Venezuela degeneró en un estado fallido y cómo puede recuperarse? from 2017-10-26T14:07:08
Alexandra Gonzalez, estudiante embajadora del Centro para Desarrollo Internacional de Harvard entrevista a Douglas Barrios y Ricardo Villasmil, investigadores en el Centro.
Douglas y Ricardo ha...
Asian Development Bank’s 2017 Economic Forecast for Asia and the Pacific from 2017-10-19T20:48:11
CID Student Ambassador Abeela Latif interviews Dr. Yasuyuki Sawada, Chief Economist and Chief Spokesperson on economic & development trends at the Asian Development Bank on the latest Economic Pros...
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Taking back control or losing it? An analysis of the possible economic impact of Brexit from 2017-10-12T13:14:55
Alexandra Gonzalez, CID Student Ambassador, interviews María Latorre, member of the European Commission's group of experts in International Trade and Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid ...
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Impact Investing in Emerging Markets: Reaching its full potential from 2017-10-05T16:22:58
CID Student Ambassador Patrick Hannahan interviews Kusi Hornberger, Senior Project Manager at Dalberg Global Development Advisors on the potential regions and sectors for impact investing, about st...
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The power of attraction: the European Union's gravitational pull for development and stabilization from 2017-09-27T19:23:30
CID Research Fellow Ermal Frasheri interviews Dr. Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations at the European Commission on the scope of EU’s Neighbourhood pol...
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Climate Resilience in the Latin American City from 2017-09-14T18:40:11
CID Research Fellow Tim O'Brien interviews Carolina Zambrano-Barragán, Climate change and urban sustainability expert from Quito, Ecuador.
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CID 2025 Global Growth Projections from 2017-06-28T19:46:52
CID Communications Manager, Chuck McKenney interview CID Research Fellow Tim Cheston and Sebastian Bustos on the Center's recently published 2025 Global Growth Projections, based on the latest 2015...
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Human mobility: potential and resistance from 2017-05-17T20:08:01
CID Research Fellow Tim McNaught interviews Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School on the often overlooked gains of migration to both rich ...
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Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization from 2017-05-10T21:10:27
CID Student Ambassador Yuxiang Luo interviews Parag Khanna, Geo-Strategist, best selling author & Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore on his book "Connectography: Mapping...
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Full Seminar Audio: Violence, Insecurity, and Development in Latin America from 2017-05-05T16:00:58
This is the full audio from our fourth Security and Development Seminar Series. This session explores the causes, correlates, and consequences of interpersonal violence in Latin America, with an em...
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Interview: Violence, Insecurity, and Development in Latin America from 2017-05-04T19:52:46
CID has launched its new Security and Development Seminar Series and over the 2016-2017 academic year, it will host four high-level discussions exploring the intersections between security, growth,...
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Economic policy in Brazil - prospects for recovery after the crisis from 2017-04-27T20:06:14
CID Outreach Coordinator Camila Lobo interviews Fabio Kanczuk, Secretary of Economic Policy at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance and Full Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of São Paulo ...
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Made in Mexico: The Path Ahead for Trade and Migration Issues from 2017-04-20T19:02:14
CID Student Ambassador Mayra Salazar Rivera interviews Gerardo Esquivel, Professor of Economics at El Colegio de Mexico, and Executive Coordinator of Research at the Instituto Belisario Domínguez o...
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Full Seminar Audio: Inequality, Crime and Development in Latin America from 2017-03-30T18:59:56
This is the full audio from our third Security and Development Seminar Series. This session explores the causal relationships between inequality, crime, and violence, understanding the former as a ...
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Full Seminar Audio: Gangs, Guns, Drugs, & Development in Latin America from 2017-03-30T18:46:53
This is the full audio from our second Security and Development Seminar Series. This session explores how trafficking in illicit drugs, weapons, and persons by transnational criminal organizations ...
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Full Seminar Audio: Corruption, Impunity & Development in Latin America from 2017-03-30T18:28:39
This is the full audio from our first Security and Development Seminar Series. This session explores how corruption and impunity obstruct development in Latin America, with a focus on Mexico.
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Peace through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Start-up Culture for Security and Development from 2017-03-30T17:44:17
CID Student Ambassador Hubert Wu interviews Steven Koltai, Managing Director of Koltai & Company, and Brookings Guest Scholar on Governance Studies. In his recently launched book "Peace through Ent...
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Benefiting from Return Migration: Effects of Return Migration on Non-migrants' Wages and Employment from 2017-03-23T14:23:20
CID Research Assistant Sehar Noor interviews Ljubica Nedelkoska, Growth Lab research fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Ljubica presented her recently publis...
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Building an award winning NGO: the challenges and reality behind the dream to make a difference from 2017-03-15T15:16:44
CID Research Fellow Tim McNaught interviews Filipe Alfaiate and Ariana Almeida, Co-Founders of the Timor-Leste based NGO, Empreza Diak. Filipe and Ariana talk about how their dream to make a differ...
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Practical Economics - Economic Transformation and Government Reform in Georgia from 2017-03-09T17:01:36
CID Student Ambassador Mohamed Quamar interviews Nika Gilauri, former Prime Minister of Georgia. Nika talks about his book, Practical Economics, in which he provides a detailed analysis of the refo...
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How Some Rustbelt Cities are Becoming the Smartest Places on Earth and Why it Matters from 2017-03-01T19:14:58
CID Student Ambassador David Pareja interviews Antoine Van Agtmael, Senior Adviser at Foreign Policy Analytics and principal founder, CEO and CIO of Emerging Markets Management LLC.
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Building State Capability - Evidence, Analysis, Action from 2017-02-21T19:21:51
Salimah Samji, CID's Building State Capability Program Director, interviews Matt Andrews, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of...
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Political Prisoners and Torture in Venezuela: The Experience of an HKS Alumnus & Political Prisoner from 2017-02-16T19:10:37
CID Research Francisco Muci, Program Assistant at CID, interviews Francisco Marquez Lara, a Harvard Kennedy School MPP’12 alumnus who was held as a political prisoner in Venezuela. Francisco descri...
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Productive Transformation in LATAM & Strategic Participation in Global Value Chains: An OECD view from 2017-02-09T19:05:06
CID Student Ambassador Mayra Salazar-Rivera interviews Roberto Martinez Yllescas, Head of OECD Mexico Centre. Roberto discusses Latin America's participation in global value chains and his views on...
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How Political and Social Change Happens and how Individuals and Organizations can Influence it from 2017-02-02T21:31:47
CID Research Fellow Tim McNaught interviews Duncan Green, Oxfam Strategic Adviser and LSE Professor of International Development on his latest book, "How Change Happens".
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Interview: Gangs, Guns, Drugs, and Development in Latin America from 2017-01-26T18:02:07
CID has launched its new Security and Development Seminar Series and over the 2016-2017 academic year, it will host four high-level discussions exploring the intersections between security, growth,...
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Interview: Corruption, Impunity & Development in Latin America from 2017-01-19T18:51:18
CID has launched its new Security and Development Seminar Series and over the 2016-2017 academic year, it will host four high-level discussions exploring the intersections between security, growth,...
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Too Small to Fail: Why Small Countries are Outperforming Larger Ones and What Lessons can be Learned from 2017-01-12T15:24:47
CID Student Ambassador Hubert Wu interviews James Breiding, Research Associate at CID on his upcoming book "Too small to fail: why small countries are outperforming larger ones and what lessons can...
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Empowering Human Capital and Institutions through Higher Education from 2017-01-05T16:50:28
Interview with one of our Guest Speakers at CID's Speaker Series: Angelica Natera, Executive Director of Laspau
Recorded on October 14th, 2016.
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Education for People and Planet: Creating Sustainable Futures for All from 2016-12-16T20:43:53
CID Student Ambassador Cassandra Ling interviews Priyadarshani Joshi, a researcher with the Global Education Monitoring Report, housed in UNESCO. Priya discusses the recently published "2016 Global...
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Venezuela: How an Oil Rich Country Went Bust and the Roadmap to Get It Back on Track from 2016-12-09T14:16:18
Interview with CID research fellows on the Venezuela Project Team: Douglas Barrios and Miguel Angel Santos.
Recorded on November 4th, 2016.
Venezuela is currently undergoing the worst ...
City SMARTup: New Tools to Fire Up Your Smart City Project from 2016-11-30T14:14:33
Interview with one of our Guest Speakers at CID's Speaker Series: Renato de Castro, International Advisor, World e-Governments Organization.
Recorded on October 21st, 2016.
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Efficient and Inclusive Urbanization in China Requires a Leading Role for the Big Cities from 2016-11-23T14:26:43
Interview with a Guest Speakers at the Ash Center's Economic Development in East Asia Seminar series, Professor Lu Ming Distinguished Professor of Economics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) ...
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Making a Mark and Achieving Your Highest Potential in the Development Sector from 2016-10-12T23:49:34
Interview with one of our Guest Speakers at CID's Speaker Series: Soulaima Gourani, CEO Capital Aid & Owner, Tradeconductor.com
Recorded on September 23r3, 2016.
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Integrating Nutrition and Agriculture to Address Malnutrition in Rwanda from 2016-10-03T22:57:53
Interview with one of our Guest Speakers at CID's Speaker Series: Jessie Cronan, Executive Director, Gardens for Health International
Recorded on September 9th, 2016.
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A New Era for Development Assistance: How are NGOs Adapting? Charles MacCormack, Save the Children from 2016-09-22T15:13:04
Interview with one of our Guest Speakers at CID's Speaker Series: Speaker: Charles MacCormack, President Emeritus, Save the Children
Recorded on September 16th, 2016.
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