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Water and Human Well Being: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2009-11)The Executive Session on Water and Human Well Being was convened by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Venice International University on July 20–21, 2009. This high-level gathering was organized to create a ... -
Weathering Collapse: An Assessment of the Financial and Operational Situation of the Venezuelan Oil Industry
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-11)Venezuela has one of the most abundant geological endowments in the world. Oil proven reserves are among the largest globally, even if a more conservative criterion than the one used by the current government is applied. ... -
Western Australia – Research Findings and Policy Recommendations
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2021-04)The Government of Western Australia (WA), acting through its Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), invited the Growth Lab of the Center for International Development at Harvard University to ... -
What are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2014-12)When households increase their deposits in formal bank savings accounts, what is the source of the money? We combine high-frequency surveys with an experiment in which a Sri Lankan bank used mobile Point-of-Service (POS) ... -
What Bangs for Your Bucks? Assessing the Design and Impact of Transformative Policy
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-06)After an era of generic support for economic development and innovation, narrowly targeted transformation policy is back on the table. Recent advances in the fields of new industrial policy and transition thinking converge ... -
What is public policy success, especially in development?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-09)Public policy work is hard, especially when one works in developing countries. It is even difficult to define what success looks like, and thus how to manage towards success. Literature helps manage such difficulty, providing ... -
What is South Africa’s Crop Production Potential?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2023-05)Combining satellite data with FAO potential yields we provide a new measure of South Africa's current and potential crop farming output. We find that field crop production is twice its census estimate, contributing 1.4% ... -
What Small Countries Can Teach the World
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-04)The large economies have each, in sequence, offered "models" that once seemed attractive to others but that eventually gave way to disillusionment. Small countries may have some answers. They are often better able to ... -
What Will It Take for Jordan to Grow?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-03)This report aims to answer the critical but difficult question: "What will it take for Jordan to grow?" Though Jordan has numerous active growth and reform strategies in place, they do not clearly answer this fundamental ... -
What Works for Active Labor Market Policies?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-07)The past 5 years have witnessed a flurry of RCT evaluations that shed new light on the impact and cost effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs) aiming to improve workers´ access to new jobs and better wages. ... -
What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-03)The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. This goal was adopted in large part because clean water was seen as critical to fighting ... -
What You Export Matters
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-12)When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic growth. We demonstrate ... -
What You Export Matters
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-03)Revised edition. When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic growth. ... -
When Do Development Projects Enhance Community Well-Being?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-06)Many development agencies and governments now seek to engage directly with local communities, whether as a means to the realization of more familiar goals (infrastructure, healthcare, education) or as an end in itself ... -
When is Prevention More Profitable than Cure? The Impact of Time-Varying Consumer Heterogeneity
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-01)We argue that in pharmaceutical markets, variation in the arrival time of consumer heterogeneity creates differences between a producer’s ability to extract consumer surplus with preventives and treatments, potentially ... -
Who are the Democrats? Leading Opinions in the Wake of Egypt’s 2011 Popular Uprisings
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-01)I look at changes in public opinion in Egypt, using the two waves of 2000 and 2008 of the World Value Survey. I find that during this period, there has been a major increase in popular support for democracy, a sizable rise ... -
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on Debate Participation in a Liberian Election
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-12)We examine how candidate selection into the supply of policy information determines its electoral effects. In a nationwide debate initiative designed to solicit and rebroadcast policy promises from Liberian legislative ... -
Who Needs the Nation State?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-05)The nation state has few friends these days. It is roundly viewed as an archaic construct that is at odds with 21st century realities. It has neither much relevance nor much power, analysts say. Increasingly, it is ... -
Who Really Leads Development?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-04)"Leadership" is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and ... -
Who Wins in the World Economy and English Football?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-01)Globalization has fed significant economic gains across the world. The gains lead some policymakers in developing countries to believe in the potential of ‘catch up’—where they leverage the gains of an open world economy ...