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    • Validating India's GDP Growth Estimates 

      Subramanian, Arvind (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-07)
      My recent research paper “India's GDP Mis-estimation: Likelihood, Magnitudes, Mechanisms, and Implications,” (hereafter “GDP paper”) and the associated op-ed in the Indian Express on June 11, 2019 have generated considerable ...
    • The Value of Early-Career Skills 

      Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2023-02)
      We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified ...
    • Value Subtraction in Public Sector Production: Accounting vs Economic Cost of Primary Schooling in India 

      Pritchett, Lant; Aiyar, Yamini (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-06)
      We combine newly created data on per student government expenditure on children in government elementary schools across India, data on per student expenditure by households on students attending private elementary schools, ...
    • Varieties of Capital Flows: What Do We Know? 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Zuniga, Jimena (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-05)
      Capital flows have been the subject of key policy concern since the Brady plan launched the emerging markets asset class. Their massive volume, coupled with their volatile and procyclical nature, is often associated with ...
    • Vulnerability to Changes in Ecosystem Services 

      Schröter, Dagmar (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-07)
      Humans are an inseparable part of their environment through their dependence on ecosystems and the services ecosystems provide. The mismanagement of ecosystem services increases human vulnerability. Examples like the Irish ...
    • Water and Human Well Being: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition 

      Zwane, Alix Peterson; Kremer, Michael; Meeks, Robyn (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 

      Hernández, Igor; Monaldi, Francisco (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 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Barrios, Douglas; Grisanti, Ana; Kasoolu, Semiray; O'Brien, Timothy; Protzer, Eric; Sanghvi, Rushabh; Taniparti, Nikita; Tapia Rodriguez, Jorge Andres (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 

      Callen, Michael; De Mel, Suresh; McIntosh, Craig; Woodruff, Christopher (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 

      Janssen, Matthijs (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? 

      Andrews, Matthew (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? 

      Sturzenegger, Federico; Klinger, Bailey; Ordóñez, Iván (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 

      Frankel, Jeffrey (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? 

      O'Brien, Timothy; Bui, Ngoc Thao Nguyen; Frasheri, Ermal; Garcia, Fernando; Protzer, Eric; Villasmil, Ricardo; Hausmann, Ricardo (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? 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Montane, Martin; Sartorio, Luca (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 

      Zwane, Alix Peterson; Kremer, Michael (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 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Hwang, Jason; Rodrik, Dani (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 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Hwang, Jason; Rodrik, Dani (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? 

      Woolcock, Michael (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 

      Kremer, Michael; Snyder, Christopher (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 ...