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...We’re trying to put CID back on track,” Rodrik says, “but we’ll have to essentially start from scratch...
University President Lawrence H. Summers, who must ultimately decide the fate of CID, has emphasized development studies as an important priority for the University’s future...
...CID was founded in 1998, as a center affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, at a time when Sachs was chair of then-troubled Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID). HIID was beset with controversy over the alleged wrongdoing of two of its affiliates working on its Russia project—a case that is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit by the U.S. government...
While HIID provided consulting services to the developing world, CID was intended to be the research arm of the University’s efforts at development studies...
Soon, in fact, it was the University’s only arm. In 2000, HIID was dissolved and much of its endowment transferred to CID. A committee reporting to then-Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 said the University should concentrate its efforts on academic research rather than consulting...