Cornell Collaboration for International Development Economics Research

CIDER brings together experts in development economics—in particular on poverty, food insecurity, agricultural and rural development, health and education, risk management, and firm and market behavior—to build on Cornell’s legacy of global development innovation. Our programs foster collaborations among faculty, staff, students, and research fellows from four units across campus: the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy (Brooks), and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business (SC Johnson College), to help sustainably solve the economic challenges people face around the world. Cornell has long been a global leader in international development economics research, teaching, and outreach. Cornell was the main academic incubator of Asia’s Green Revolution and developed the world’s main poverty and food insecurity measures, along with other seminal theories, methods, and empirical findings. CIDER sustains that tradition, fostering collaborations among Cornell faculty, staff, students, and external partners worldwide by working to reduce poverty, hunger, and human suffering.