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...CFIA and the DAS are still with us, but in the years since they were a regular way station for demonstrations and the target of a bombing campaign, things have changed a good...
Back in the days of student protest, the Center for International Affairs and its operating arm, the Development Advisory Service, were hot political issues at Harvard. The CFIA was accused of being the hatchery for theories applied in Vietnam and the DAS of exporting these doctrines, in the guise of economic advice, to other developing countries...
...fact, this summer the University announced a major expansion in the DAS, and changed its name to the Harvard Institute for International Development. The change is likely to mean a significant enlargement of Harvard's role abroad, in ways that may owe something to those heady days of a few years...
HIID will consolidate foreign assistance programs conducted by the old DAS and other parts of the University, with the hope of encouraging an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of developing nations. This is partially in respons a feeling that both research into development and actual projects abroad would be enhanced by integrating specialists in fields such as education, public health and urban planning, with DAS economists...
...HIID administrator concedes, "The DAS was focused on what we found to be a simplistic version of development--economic growth." To some degree, the more comprehensive advisory capacity that Harvard is now gearing up to offer to the world takes cognizance of the belief that the distribution of economic and political fruits within a society is as important--if not more so--as a country's economic growth, even in developing nations. This was perhaps the most serious question raised by Vietnam-era critics who contended the DAS was insufficiently concerned with the composition and policies of the governments...