Speaker: R. James Breiding, Author ‘Too Small to Fail’ analyzes a number of successful countries that have created virtues out of their physical limitations. It attempts to understand what they do differently and why they seem to do it better. Why are they better-educated, more egalitarian, and wealthier?  R.James Breiding is the author of Swiss […]

Business history InitiativeWe seek to enable scholars, educators, and practitioners to learn from the past by providing rich and nuanced evidence on the key issues faced by the world today. Since the work of Joseph Schumpeter and the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History in the 1940s, Harvard has taken an interdisciplinary and global approach to […]

Speakers: Francisco Marquez, MPP’12 and political prisoner; Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Francisco Marquez Lara is a Venezuelan lawyer and polítical activist with the Voluntad Popular party. He was held as a political prisoner in Venezuela for four months. Throughout this time he was detained […]

Speaker: Carlos Fernández Valdovinos, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay Moderator: Ricardo Hausmann, Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University Carlos Fernández Valdovinos, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay since October 2013. He has a Ph.D. in Economics (University of Chicago, 1999), Master in Economic Policy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, […]

The second session in CID's new Security and Development Seminar Series. This session will explore how trafficking in illicit drugs, weapons, and persons by transnational criminal organizations impedes development in many Latin American countries. Speakers: Thomas Abt, Innovation in Citizen Security Project, CID Daniel Mejia, Secretary of Security of Bogota, Colombia Steven Dudley, Co-director, InSight Crime, […]

Speaker: Roberto Martinez Yllescas, Head of OECD Mexico Centre As head of the OECD Mexico Centre, Roberto Martínez Yllescas (MPP '95) works to increase the OECD's relevance and impact in Mexico and Latin America. Roberto was previously Chief of Staff to Commissioner Labardini as one of the founders of Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Institute. Previously, he […]

Speaker: Duncan Green, Oxfam Strategic Adviser, LSE Professor of International Development Duncan Green will introduce his new book and provide a chance for the audience to challenge, engage and add their own perspectives. How Change Happens explores how political and social change takes place, and the role of individuals and organizations in influencing that change. He […]

Speaker: Antoine van Agtmael, senior adviser at Foreign Policy Analytics and principal founder, CEO and CIO of Emerging Markets Management LLC. Mr. van Agtmael is senior adviser at Foreign Policy Analytics, a public policy advisory firm in Washington DC and was the principal founder, CEO and CIO of Emerging Markets Management LLC (and later chairman of AshmoreEMM), […]

Quantitative or qualitative: which evaluation method is more useful?  This has long been a contentious debate in the field of international development.  Yet while individual methods like randomized control trials, ethnography, structured observations, and interviews are each well-placed to reveal parts of the picture, each can also miss important parts of the whole.  Thus the […]

Speakers: Filipe Alfaiate and Ariana Almeida, Co-Founders of the Timor-Leste based NGO, Empreza Diak About the session: Filipe and Ariana will be talking about how their dream to make a difference became an award winning NGO empowering poor women and their families in Timor-Leste, the newest and most impoverished country in Asia. They will focus on what […]

Speakers: Matt Andrews, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School Authors Matt and Lant will present the recently launched book: "Building State Capability - Evidence, Analysis, Action". The book uses data to identify failures in efforts to build state […]

The third session in CID's new Security and Development Seminar Series. Inequality as both Cause and Effect of Crime, Violence in Latin America. This session will explore the causal relationships between inequality, crime, and violence, understanding the former as a both cause and effect of the latter. The relative importance of proximate vs. root causes […]