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Leading scholars and public intellectuals reexamine international development through a global, historical lens, exploring what has worked, what has not, and why. Featuring Nobel laureates Esther ...

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Harvard Center for International Development | From Poverty to Potential The global landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift. Institutions built after World War II are being reassessed, and new...

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The second day of GEM26: Reimagining International Development explored a defining question for the future of global development: how can the field move from reducing poverty to unlocking human pot...

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The opening day of GEM26: Reimagining International Development explored one of the defining questions for the future of global development: what comes after the old model of export-led industriali...

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“Instead of thinking of evidence as an output, you have to think of it as a pathway.” — Maroof A. Syed, President and CEO of CERP At CID’s Road to GEM Speaker Series, Maroof A. Syed explores what ...

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“In terms of development, it may be more important to overcome the risk of a reversion than to focus on the speed of reforms.” — Hernán Lacunza, Former Minister of Treasury of Argentina and Minist...

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“I don’t think the question is simply how do we make people care. It’s about what kind of understanding are we creating when we make them care?” — Michael Rain, TED Speaker, Harvard Senior Fellow &amp

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“I agree that the old aid model is dead. I disagree that it’s the end of development. If you think of development not as the aid industry, not as assistance, but from a country’s perspective—as asp...

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What does it really take to make frontier markets investable? In this Harvard Center for International Development event, CrossBoundary Group co-founders Jake Cusack and Tom Flahive join Wasim Tah...

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Urban Mobility and Climate Change Conference 2026 | Day 2 Harvard Kennedy School – March 6, 2026 This video features the full recording of Day 2 of the Urban Mobility and Climate Change Conference...

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Urban Mobility and Climate Change Conference 2026 | Day 1 Harvard Kennedy School – March 5, 2026 This video features the full recording of Day 1 of the Urban Mobility and Climate Change Conference...

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“I only have one regret. I was not ambitious enough. I should have thought about 100,000 rather than a thousand, because a thousand people is a very small number to actually make much of a differen...

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The Global Empowerment Meeting (GEM) is Harvard CID’s annual gathering of global changemakers—leaders, researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and innovators from every sector—who come together t...

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“Macroeconomic stability is a four-legged table—monetary, fiscal, financial, and exchange rate. If one leg wobbles, everything on top crashes.” — Carlos Fernández Valdovinos, Minister of Economy &

“If women are not at the peace table, the agreement will fail. To sustain peace, the population must own it—and women must lead in shaping it.” — Binetta Diop, former African Union Special Envoy on...

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In this video, members of the Global Development Council (GDC) at Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID) share their perspectives on why global collaboration and inclusive growth matt...

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“The global health system is broken—and it was never truly built for equity.” — Alicia Ely Yamin, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School At Harvard CID’s Friday Speaker Series, co-hosted with the Har...

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Join us for a conversation around Professor Dani Rodrik's upcoming book "Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World." The conversation will feature Professor Rodrik in conversation with Chatib Basri (f...

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Building state capacity is an investment problem—and like any investment, it’s harder to make when the future feels uncertain.” — Michael Callen, Associate Professor of Economics, London School of ...

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“Africa pays five times more for debt than others—because of bias, not risk. We need a global financial architecture that works for us, not just on us.” — Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, CEO & President, T

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