CID Harvard

The Center for International Development at Harvard University is collaborating with the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Meta-Council on Inclusive Growth and the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth to find sustainable and scalable solutions to foster inclusive growth.

Following our call for examples of practices, policies and institutional initiatives at the intersection of inclusion and growth, we received more than 100 submissions. Our team of jurors selected 11 proposals spanning areas of education, entrepreneurship, finance, government, IT, and labor markets.

These ideas were featured and discussed at the Symposium on Oct. 1-2, 2015. For more details, visit www.growthsymposium.org

A two day event (Oct 22-23, 2014) hosted by the Building State Capability program at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) with funding from the Governance Partnership Facility. The aim was to showcase practical experience on new strategies for designing, implementing and evaluating development programs in more innovative ways.

More: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/bsc/doing-development-diff...

Led by Ricardo Hausmann, Lant Pritchett, and Ishac Diwan, CID's Growth Lab works to understand the dynamics of growth and to translate those insights into more effective policymaking in developing countries. The Lab serves as the global hub for Structural Transformation, which places complexity at the center of the development story and uncovers how countries can shift to industries that offer increased productivity.

Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard's Center for International Development is a program that brings together a team of researchers who share a commitment to using analytical tools to answer pressing policy questions and create real social and economic impact.

By explicitly considering the objectives and constraints of policy actors, we aim to gain a fuller understanding of how to effectively achieve desired development outcomes.

We inform public policy by working alongside policymakers to design and test interventions that will maximize the reach of public resources and more effectively deliver services to the poor.

EPoD's cutting-edge research is identifying how policy design can best leverage policymaker and researcher insights to enable sustainable development.

More: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/programs/evidence-...

Matt Andrews teaches a course entitled “Getting Things Done: Management in the Development Context,” at the Harvard Kennedy School. He often gets asked about what he teaches in his course. So, he has decided to experiment with blogging about his course after every class. Each blog entry will include his powerpoint presentation, his syllabus, required readings/videos as well as a summary of what happened in class.

Read more here: http://matthewandrews.typepad.com/the_limits_of_institution/