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More than three-fourths of the world's population live in so-called developing countries: nations that may not have a stable economy, energy supply, or advanced technology, and whose population may lack access to jobs, food, water, education, health care, and housing. RAND takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the problems of international development and recommends policy solutions for global, national, and local economies.

Project
International Research and Analysis Seeks to Enhance Wellbeing of People in Developing Countries
Understanding the factors influencing economic growth and development is crucial to enhancing the human welfare of a nation. RAND International Research and Analysis is committed to fulfilling this objective.
Oct 1, 2018
Report
China's Engagement with the Developing World
Engaging with developing countries offers China economic growth and global influence. What are the consequences of Beijing's strategy toward the developing world for the United States?
Oct 16, 2018

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Journal Article
Humanitarian Policymaking as Networked Governance
To understand policymaking from a networked governance perspective, researchers used social network analysis and examined one of the most significant refugee policy processes: the efforts to formulate and adopt the Global Compact on Refugees.
Nov 2, 2022
Dissertation
Financial Mechanisms in a Disaster Aftermath: The Mexican Case
Explores the financial mechanisms available to individuals and governments after a disaster in developing countries, using Mexico as a case study.
Oct 25, 2022
Journal Article
Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF): Stage 1a Evaluation
Stage 1a of a long term evaluation of the GCRF consists of a management review, and findings on aspects of the international research it funds.
Mar 23, 2022
Journal Article
How We Talk About Migration: The Link Between Migration Narratives, Policy, and Power
This report analyzes how narratives about migration contribute to political discourse in five countries.
Oct 22, 2021
Journal Article
Risk Technopolitics in Freetown Slums: Why Community-Based Disaster Management Is No Silver Bullet
Chapter from "Critical Disaster Studies" (Penn Press, 2021) detailing a study of Sierra Leone and proposing that community-based disaster risk management actually distracts from larger social and political root causes of vulnerability.
Jul 16, 2021
Journal Article
Improving Preferential Market Access Through Rules of Origin: Firm-Level Evidence from Bangladesh
This paper studies how rules of origin in potential export markets influence the export behavior of firms in least-developed countries.
Mar 23, 2021
Journal Article
Rules of Origin and Trade Preference Utilization Among Least Developed Countries
This article assesses how the utilization of trade agreements responds to rules of origin revisions that allow for more foreign content in exported products.
Mar 23, 2021
Report
The Abraham Accords Could Have Wide-Reaching Economic Benefits
The Abraham Accords between Israel and Muslim nations represent a possible new chapter in the region's development—away from conflict and toward a shared vision of economic prosperity. Israel's partners could gain 150,000 new jobs. And that could grow to 4 million new jobs over a decade if other nations join.
Mar 18, 2021
Commentary
Why We 'Send Them Money'
Why does the United States send foreign countries American taxpayer money? The answer, in short, is because it serves U.S. self-interest to do so. Aid is not some act of charity at the American taxpayers' expense; it can help keep Americans safer, more prosperous, and secure.
Dec 30, 2020
Journal Article
Hybrid Governance of Disaster Management in Freetown, Monrovia, and Dar Es Salaam
This article introduces a hybrid governance perspective to disaster management. Hybrid governance refers to situations where state and non-state actors collectively provide key services.
Sep 16, 2020
Journal Article
Emerging Infectious Disease, the Household Built Environment Characteristics, and Urban Planning: Evidence on Avian Influenza in Vietnam
This study examines the relationship between the mix of household-scale water supplies, sanitation systems, and construction materials, and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza among poultry in Vietnam.
Sep 16, 2020
Journal Article
Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards a New Normal
This chapter introduces some of the key issues facing scholars and practitioners of disaster risk reduction in urban areas, which are now home to over half of the global population.
Sep 3, 2020
Journal Article
A Complexity Approach for Reducing Disaster Risks for Marginalized Urban Populations: Comparing DRR Interventions Across Four Cities
This chapter conceptualizes cities and their risks as a complex adaptive system and examines the methods for risk reduction.
Sep 3, 2020
Project
International Development Research at RAND Europe
Our researchers help to inform evidence-based policymaking to build links between local and global knowledge within developing societies on topics such as good governance, evaluation and capacity building, and public health.
Sep 2, 2020
Commentary
Demystifying the Belt and Road Initiative
Under the Belt and Road Initiative, China works with more than 70 countries to design and implement large infrastructure projects. Why are countries of all stripes turning to China for funding when the world is awash with cash?
Jul 6, 2020
Journal Article
Healthcare at the Beginning of Life and Child Survival: Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment in Nigeria
We study the effects of a cash transfer program in Nigeria in which households were offered a payment of $14 conditioned on uptake of health services.
Dec 20, 2019
Journal Article
Challenges to the Integration of Syrian Refugees
In this study, we provide an overview of the situation of Syrian refugees and other non-citizens living in host countries. We explored the cases of Turkey, Germany, the United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, Canada and Australia.
Dec 18, 2018
Dissertation
Preventing Deviations from Presidential Term Limits in Low- and Middle-Income Democracies
Examines the broader theme of deviations from presidential term limits.
Oct 11, 2018

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Hardika Dayalani

Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND

Hardika Dayalani (she/her) is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Before joining RAND, she worked with a nonprofit in India implementing post-displacement housing programs and researching sustainable building technologies in rural…
Mehdi Shiva

Research Leader

Mehdi Shiva is a research leader at the RAND Corporation. He works primarily for RAND Europe in the Health and Wellbeing Research Group. Prior to joining RAND, Shiva led the economics research and policy agenda at Government Outcomes Lab, a research program within the Blavatnik School of…

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