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...news that University President Lawrence H. Summers is considering proposals to eliminate Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID) is cause for concern. The Center could not exist at a more crucial time—as the University becomes increasingly global, the problems of the developing world elicit more attention than ever before. More than 40 million people worldwide, a disproportionate number of whom live in poor countries, are afflicted with HIV/AIDS. Last month, the publication of the World Bank’s annual World Development Indicators revealed similarly upsetting statistics: despite unprecedented prosperity gains in the West...
...CID is one of an array of University programs that “have development as an important priority,” Wrinn wrote in an e-mail, citing the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Global Health Initiative, the Center for Population and Development Studies and the Center for the Environment...
...CID’s programs ought to fit into this landscape,” Wrinn wrote. “The University is committed to a vibrant research program in international development.” But in an interview with The Crimson in October, Rogofff said that the CID “is the only development center at Harvard. Harvard needs a development center...
...found that CID and MPAID were mutually supportive programs,” Sachs wrote. “The idea of CID is to provide a home where cross-disciplinary activities directed at development (e.g. the integration of economics, public health, the natural environment, and politics) can be fruitfully achieved...
...loop on CID at all, so I don’t know what’s happening or what’s planned,” wrote Sachs, who now directs Columbia’s Earth Institute. “I would hope, though, that Harvard keeps a vibrant development center at the Kennedy School of Government...