CID COVID-19 Response & Resource Page
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the lives of people around the world, but those in developing countries are likely to suffer the most in the face of this global crisis. At the Center for International Development (CID@Harvard), we see this as a call to action. We are responding quickly in the following ways to implement solutions: we are collecting funding information; we are connecting researchers, foundations, and policymakers to channel our resources; and we are sharing the most up-to-date work of our experts to ensure it is reaching those who need it most.
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Faculty and fellows are conducting research projects in 32 countries
CID Director Asim I. Khwaja coauthors a multidisciplinary proposal with a team of experts, experienced researchers and practitioners to respond to COVID-19. Elements of the proposal are being tested in various places – including Pakistan – where several members of the team have been actively supporting the state’s response efforts at national and sub-national levels.
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Carmen M. Reinhart has been appointed as the new chief economist and vice president of the World Bank Group.
World Bank Group President David Malpass made the announcement today in Washington, noting that the appointment comes “as we boost our efforts to restore growth and meet the urgent debt and recession crises facing many of our client countries.”
Governments are most important in times of public crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals, no matter how talented or self-reliant, look to their governments for help to empower or deploy the powers and potentialities of the collective. But many people tasked with leading public organizations in times of crises struggle to know if and how to rise to the occasion. In a series of blog posts, Building State Capability Faculty Director Matt Andrews shares ideas for leaders questioning how they can help and what kind of leadership is required in crises.
Alumni of our #PDIA online course are now using their learning from the course on solving complex problems & applying them to systematic #COVID19 response. Read their experience in the course & how they've adapted to new challenges using #PDIA. https://t.co/NGPxDkmCtT
"If 1 in 10 of the world’s 28,000 universities took it upon themselves to study, generate & disseminate educational innovation to support primary & secondary schools during the pandemic, millions of children could benefit," says #CIDExpert @FernandoReimers
https://t.co/pn4WQcFYXf
“Developing countries are dealing with a world with greater and greater complexity, more inter-connectedness—and new shocks like COVID-19—all with the same, or less, capability as more than two decades ago,” writes @HarvardBSC associate Lant Pritchett.
Alumni of our #PDIA online course are now using their learning from the course on solving complex problems & applying them to systematic #COVID19 response. Read their experience in the course & how they've adapted to new challenges using #PDIA. https://t.co/NGPxDkmCtT
“Developing countries are dealing with a world with greater and greater complexity, more inter-connectedness—and new shocks like COVID-19—all with the same, or less, capability as more than two decades ago,” writes @HarvardBSC associate Lant Pritchett.
"If 1 in 10 of the world’s 28,000 universities took it upon themselves to study, generate & disseminate educational innovation to support primary & secondary schools during the pandemic, millions of children could benefit," says #CIDExpert @FernandoReimers
https://t.co/pn4WQcFYXf
Alumni of our #PDIA online course are now using their learning from the course on solving complex problems & applying them to systematic #COVID19 response. Read their experience in the course & how they've adapted to new challenges using #PDIA. https://t.co/NGPxDkmCtT
"If 1 in 10 of the world’s 28,000 universities took it upon themselves to study, generate & disseminate educational innovation to support primary & secondary schools during the pandemic, millions of children could benefit," says #CIDExpert @FernandoReimers
https://t.co/pn4WQcFYXf
“Developing countries are dealing with a world with greater and greater complexity, more inter-connectedness—and new shocks like COVID-19—all with the same, or less, capability as more than two decades ago,” writes @HarvardBSC associate Lant Pritchett.
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