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...addition to growing skeptical about the effectiveness of such programs, many developing countries have grown out of them. Dwight H. Perkins, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), notes that "when a country reaches a level where it no longer needs such advice, it is no longer appropriate for Harvard to help." Perkins notes the difference between the stages of development between Asian and African countries. Asian nations have for the most part more of an established core of administrators than African nations, and therefore have less need for direct...
...addition to Bell and Coale the interdepartment faculty advisory committee includes Peter Timmer, Black Professor of Economics (Chairman) William Alonso Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy Zv Grilichesy Ropes professors of Political Economy Dwight Perkins Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development and Myron Weiner an MIT professor of political science
...town hosed down their housefronts in preparation for his arrival, he was greeted with extraordinary warmth. It mattered little that the applause was always louder when he arrived than when he departed. After his speeches, voters lined up for autographs and snapshots. Like another hero and presidential candidate, Dwight Eisenhower, with whom he is frequently compared, Glenn's folk stature gives him tremendous believability with his audiences. Still, the crowds studied him carefully, trying to judge his competence. Is this space hero with the soapy talk about traditional values smart enough, they seemed to be asking, shrewd enough...
DIED. Alfred M. Gnienther, 84, four-star U.S. Army general who was right-hand man to Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Mark Clark in World War II and European commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 1953 to 1956; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. Gruenther was able to crunch huge amounts of data down to the essentials, earning the nickname "the brain." Recommended for the NATO post by Ike, Gruenther kept Allied forces in such a high state of readiness that some NATO members concluded, to his distress, that they could cut their troops and attend to other commitments...
...addition to growing skeptical about the effectiveness of such programs, many developing countries have grown out of them. Dwight H. Perkins, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), notes that "when a country reaches a level where it no longer needs such advice, it is no longer appropriate for Harvard to help." Perkins notes the difference between the stages of development between Asian and African countries. Asian nations have for the most part more of an established core of administrators than African nations, and therefore have less of a need for direct...