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Kennedy School of Government Professor Ricardo Hausmann will become the next chief of the Center for International Development (CID), the University announced today...
Hausmann, who is professor of the practice of economic development, becomes the first professor from a developing country to lead the CID...
...CID is an extraordinary resource for the University as we deepen our commitment to promoting development around the world,” Summers said in a statement today. The president was far less supportive in the spring a year and a half ago, when he considered dissolving the center, which was established in 1998 by economist Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76, who famously sparred with Summers over economic policy and later left for a plum post at Columbia University...
...enormous disparities in opportunities across countries is the fundamental challenge facing the world today,” Hausmann said in a statement today. “Harvard has among the best professors on development and the brightest students. The challenge for CID is to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Doing this will require that we bring the problems of the world to Harvard and bring Harvard’s ideas to the world...
...also had personal family reasons for choosing New Haven over Cambridge. Although having resources obviously trumps a commitment to obtaining them, I am also convinced that Dean Ellwood and Larry Summers are committed to raising the needed funds and that CID can have a profound impact on the eradication of global poverty. As I also wrote in response to the reporter’s inquiries: “I had tremendous colleagues and great staff support at Harvard; I am giving up a lot” by leaving here...