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There is little on the horizon that offers Haitians much hope of change. In a field crowded with presidential aspirants, no figure has come close to seizing the country's imagination, as Corazon Aquino did in the Philippines. For now, Haiti can be expected to hobble along until the presidential elections scheduled for November. If all goes according to plan, the new President will be installed by the second anniversary of Duvalier's ouster. Perhaps by then Haitians will have something to celebrate...
...Jeffrey D. Sachs, professor of Economics, is currently advising the Aquino government on international financial policy...
...there to learn as much as I could and to share my views with the Minister of Agrarian Reform," Thomas says. "But I certainly do not have the impression that when Harvard talks Aquino [necessarily] listens...
Perkins says he believes the value of the HIID to the Aquino government is its ability to offer an informed outsider's perspective, which is partly based on past experience. During the past 25-years, the Institute has conducted projects in nearly 30 countries, mostly in Asia and Africa. Peter Timmer, for example, spent 17 years working on agricultural policy in Indonesia...
Timmer speaks of the Aquino-Harvard connection as a continuing process based on educating future leaders and advising existing ones...