Growth Lab

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Understanding the Crisis in Venezuela

Our multi-disciplinary team is working to better understand the causes, magnitudes and possible remedies of the crisis.
Exploring the Uncharted Export - Tourism

New dataset helping our researchers determine exactly how tourist dollars flow throughout an economic system.
What Should We Do About Inequality?

Ricardo Hausmann says poor people are not being exploited, they're being excluded from higher productivity activities.
The Atlas of Economic Complexity

Visualize trade relationships and explore growth opportunities for more than one hundred countries.

The Growth Lab at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University works to understand the dynamics of growth and to translate those insights into more effective policymaking in developing countries.

Research Agendas

Growth Lab faculty and fellows engage in theoretical and empirical research on the determinants of growth and its social, political, and environmental sustainability. Our four core research agendas: