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Given the recent changes at the Center for International Development (CID), I want to emphasize the depth of the Kennedy School and the University’s commitment to development. As scholars and policymakers who have spent much of our lives studying ways to eradicate poverty and foster economic development, University President Lawrence H. Summers and I believe that the Kennedy School and the University can and must do even more to advance these issues...
...Some think that President Summers wants to (perhaps sub-consciously) organize the study of development around himself, and that is why little or no resources are provided to CID,” Rosenzweig wrote...
...length about Harvard’s commitment to global research, mentioning five such programs already in existence at Harvard, including the Design School’s “innovative design responses in the wake of the tsunami disaster.” But he made no mention of CID...
...faculty associate of the center, economist Jeffrey A. Frankel, wrote in an e-mail: “I do not know of any particular political differences between President Summers and CID faculty associates, and do not believe that they would have played any role in the relationship between Summers and CID...
...admired by his colleagues, and he has considerable energy and enthusiasm for the work,” Ellwood wrote of the new CID director...