Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "international development"

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    • Developing Social Citizenship? A Case Study of Education and Health Services in Yantian Village, Guangdong 

      Saich, Anthony (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      This paper uses a case study of the evolution of education and healthcare provision in Yantian Village, Guangdong Province to examine broader trends in China’s evolving social policies. It makes no claims that development ...

    • Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City 

      Arceo, Eva; Hanna, Rema N.; Oliva, Paulina (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2012)
      Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from developed country data. However, given the lower levels of air pollution in developed countries, these estimates may not be ...

    • Empirical Confirmation of Creative Destruction from World Trade Data 

      Klimek, Peter; Hausmann, Ricardo; Thurner, Stefan (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      We show that world trade network datasets contain empirical evidence that the dynamics of innovation in the world economy indeed follows the concept of creative destruction, as proposed by J.A. Schumpeter more than half a ...

    • The Environmental Justice Dimensions of Climate Change 

      Miranda, Marie Lynn; Hastings, Douglas Andrew; Aldy, Joseph Edgar; Schlesinger, William H. (Mary Ann Liebert, 2011)
      Nations around the world are considering strategies to mitigate the severe impacts of climate change predicted to occur in the twenty-first century. Many countries, however, lack the wealth, technology, and government ...

    • Escaping Capability Traps through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) 

      Andrews, Matthew R.; Pritchett, Lant; Woolcock, Michael J. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      Many reform initiatives in developing countries fail to achieve sustained improvements in performance because they are merely isomorphic mimicry—that is, governments and organizations pretend to reform by changing what ...

    • Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming 

      Hanna, Rema N.; Mullainatha, Sendhil; Schwartzstein, Joshua (HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series, 2012)
      Existing learning models attribute failures to learn to a lack of data. We model a different barrier. Given the large number of dimensions one could focus on when using a technology, people may fail to learn because they ...