Global citizens and governments face urgent questions about reducing poverty, improving education, expanding access to healthcare, and addressing environmental inequality—issues that define today’s global development landscape. 

The Harvard Center for International Development (CID) serves as a leading research hub, generating evidence and insights to tackle these global development challenges and shape effective, inclusive policy solutions.

 

China and the Global Economy

Fostering a deeper understanding of the Chinese economy and its far-reaching implications for the global economic landscape.

 

Global Education and Research: Unlocking Potential (GEAR:UP)

Transforming education systems and developing personalized learning journeys at scale.

 

Growth Lab

Conducting innovative research on economic growth and development policies to foster inclusive prosperity. 

 

The Morocco Innovation and Evaluation Lab

Fostering effective policy-making by promoting actionable, evidence-backed research in Morocco.

 

Reimagining the Economy

Producing scholarship that helps reshape economic narratives.

 

Social Economics Lab

Creating and conducting large-scale online social economic surveys and experiments that shed light on people’s understanding and reasoning about economic matters.

 

Social Protection Initiative

Researching change and empowering global impact with social protection.

 

Visiting Researcher Program

CID's Visiting Researcher Program welcomes PhD and Postdoc researchers to pursue their research for a year in residence at Harvard Kennedy School and join the tight-knit research community at CID.

See Our Past Programs

The Harvard Center for International Development (CID) launches programs and projects on an ongoing basis—all with the goal of advancing the understanding of development challenges and offering viable solutions.