The Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID) is a nonprofit, academic research center located at Harvard University. As Harvard’s primary center for research on international development, CID works to generate shared and sustainable prosperity in developing economies. This research hub actively creates, applies, and integrates knowledge from across the university and beyond to advance understanding of development challenges and solutions.
The Center’s mission is to improve development practice and resolve the dilemmas of public policy associated with eradicating global poverty. To accomplish this mission, CID engages directly with policymakers and governments to effect good policy decisions and increase prosperity in all regions of the globe. CID's primary activities and programs seek to:
- Change the way that growth strategies are conceived, designed, and implemented
- Reinvent production-related policies to facilitate countries' move to higher productivity activities
- Extend markets to the underserved and empower the disenfranchised
- Improve governance and service delivery in education, health, and other social services
- Promote the design of institutions, policies, and practices that support sustainable development to meets human needs while conserving the earth's life support systems
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