Word: africas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although HIID, which coordinates development assistance to Africa and other underdeveloped regions, has no specific programs in South Africa, its administrators are in close contact with government officials in South Africa, Rothberg said. "We're in touch with South Africans all the time," he said...
Jack R. Meyer, president of the Harvard Management Company, which manages the University's $12.8 billion endowment, says that although the University's current South African investment is relatively low, the market is promising. "There is certainly potential [in South Africa]," he said...
...University's academic ties with South Africa have been strengthened as well...
...Harvard's restrictions on investing in South Africa were lifted, and the University began to reinvest in South Africa. "We have more and more deeper economic interests in the economic development of the country and the emerging markets there," said University Marshal Richard M. Hunt...
Even scientific research has increased, said Alfred W. Compton, Fisher professor of natural history and a native of South Africa. "There may be a greater willingness [now] on the side of American scientists to visit South Africa," he said...