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What does it take to turn government development priorities into results? We asked government leaders from the Dominican Republic, Ghana, and Namibia to explore how governments can translate policy priorities into practical outcomes. ⤵️
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What would it take for #Africa to shape its own prosperity?
I will be discussing this crucial topic with @HarvardCID.
Join the conversation⤵️
📅 23 October | 12:00–1:00 PM ET
📍 HKS, Littauer Building, Malkin Penthouse (L-9) + livestream.
🔗 linkedin.com/events/africain…
“Progress isn’t something we deliver to communities. It’s something we build with communities.”
@rajpanjabi on what Ebola, COVID-19 & HIV/AIDS teach us about building safer communities, & why trust matters as much as funding.
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@harvardmed @lastmilehealth
A glacial collapse in Nepal shows why crisis resilience begins long before disaster strikes, and what we lose when the research behind it stops.
CID Student Ambassador Siena Fleischer on what we lose when that research stops. bit.ly/4rNuxTn @Kennedy_School
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Can a global investment bank drive development? Join moderator M-RCBG Sr. Fellow @nickodonohoe
tomorrow for a talk with Faheen Allibhoy of J.P. Morgan, exploring how private capital can create measurable impact in emerging markets. Hosted by @HarvardBizGov & @HarvardCID at @Kennedy_School. Registration & HUID required: hks.harvard.edu/events/devel…
CID is hiring a Research Fellow to work with Professor Rema Hanna on research in Indonesia, India, Morocco, and beyond.
The role focuses on data analysis, randomized evaluations, social protection, labor markets, urban mobility, & climate change.
Apply: bit.ly/3TnZ1yh
CID is hiring! Lead our events portfolio and engage with the current and next generation of development leaders. Learn more, apply, and share! ⤵️
careers.harvard.edu/job/seni…
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Tune in to hear #CIDFacultyAffiliate Anders Jensen on @vox_dev ⤵️
🆕 No taxation without administration: What makes tax authorities work 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Anders Jensen (@Kennedy_School) & @JonathanWeigel (@BerkeleyHaas) discuss why tax administration design matters for revenue: voxdev.org/topic/public-econ…
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@HarvardCID's Fatema Z. Sumar was recently honored by the Mongolian government for her efforts leading the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s $350 million Mongolia Water Compact. Her work helped avert a looming water crisis in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, and expanded water access for more than two million residents. ken.sc/4cKvcyz
A very warm welcome to our incoming fellows for the 2026-2027 academic year! @Kennedy_School
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We're hiring a Senior Events Manager at @HarvardCID (@Kennedy_School).
Lead the strategy behind our public convenings, including the annual Global Empowerment Meeting, and bring them to life.
5+ yrs events/program mgmt. 📍Cambridge, MA.
Apply → bit.ly/4gXiDkA
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How does an economy grow 5% a year for two decades and still see protests in the streets?
Because growth stopped producing secure jobs — 80% of Indonesia's new jobs since 2019 were informal.
CID visiting scholar @ChatibBasri in @IMFNews F&D:
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Coming tomorrow! The second installment of our Development in Palestine webinar explores how conflict, travel restrictions, settlement construction, monetary policy, and displacement affect the Palestinian people and economony. Use this link to register: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
An economics paper written solely from developing-country institutions has a 1.4% shot at a top-10 journal. From US institutions, with similar citations: 15.5%.
Ahmed Tritah calls it the recognition trap, and argues AI is about to make it worse. ➡️ bit.ly/3UgaD6Q
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4 in 5 young Indian men agree that changing diapers doesn't make you less of a man.
They assume only 2 in 3 of their peers agree.
New post from HKS grads Andrea Salazar-Diaz & Stephanie Wu on what 1,254 young men actually want from masculinity: bit.ly/4wVSZ6L
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How can we use AI to do *better* not just more (bad) research?
One idea we tried was to test if we could transfer our tacit knowledge about what makes good research into skill files anyone can use.
You can download the skills from better-not-more-ai.lovable.a… These skills were created by the nearly 100 scholars who were at the Conference on Field Experiments in Strategy (CFXS) last week in DC!
This week on #CIDVoices, CID Faculty Affiliate Bruno Sergi asks: Should Europe remain a junior partner in the US–China competition over AI and high tech—or pursue strategic autonomy through social investment?
Read more: bit.ly/4wtDvq7
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Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon ... Open to every development economist, everywhere.
Join the community: idea.devecon.org
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Congratulations to our former colleague Katy Doyle on her new role with @BKCHarvard. Her work helped shape CID’s growth and build our very special mission-driven community. We are so grateful for her lasting impact at CID!
BKC is pleased to introduce our new Managing Director, Katy Doyle!
Katy joins BKC from over a decade at @HarvardCID, part of the @KennedySchool. She joins BKC as our chief operating officer, overseeing programs, operations, and administration for the Center.
Join us in welcoming Katy to the BKC community.
Read the announcement:
cyber.harvard.edu/story/2026…
Congratulations to CID Faculty Affiliate @piaraffler and co-authors @DanielNPosner & @DougParkerson on their new publication in the Journal of Politics. Read more ⤵️
Publishing null results **IS** hard. Thrilled to see this paper with @DanielNPosner and @DougParkerson finally in print in the Journal of Politics: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
