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Mark R. Rosenzweig, an economist at the Kennedy School of Government, has been named the next director of Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID), just three months after University President Lawrence H. Summers said he was considering scrapping the CID altogether...
...professor of public policy, is an experienced administrator who previously led the University of Pennsylvania’s economics department for five years. After coming to Harvard in fall 2002, he served on the Faculty Oversight Committee that steered the CID after the center’s first director, economist Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76, left Cambridge to lead Columbia’s Earth Institute...
...Arroyo, who trained as an economist at Georgetown University, declared in her State of the Nation address last month that her priority is to fix the economy "before it finds itself beyond hope of repair and [the Philippines is] doomed to share the fate of failed nations." She has followed up with a broadside of proposed reforms to eliminate the national budget deficit in six years, including eight new tax measures and other initiatives that she estimates will raise an extra $1.8 billion annually. She wants to change the corporate tax code so that amounts owed would be determined...
...land is irrigated, despite continual pleas from farmers for the local government to provide a more comprehensive watering system. Farmers' federation leader Vijay Jawandhia estimates that up to 40% of Vidarbha's soybean and cotton crop is already lost. With 22% of India's GDP coming from agriculture, chief economist Subir Gokarn at ratings agency Crisil predicts that crop losses will cut the country's growth rate from 8.2% last year to no more than 5.75% this year. But given that three-quarters of India's 1 billion citizens live off the land, the human cost of the drought...
...Published in May in a modest initial run of 4,000 copies, Maier's essay ridicules the rigidity and bureaucracy of French management culture by urging readers to exploit it, with helpful chapters like "The Idiots You Work with" and "Why You Risk Nothing by Quitting." Maier is an economist with the state-owned Electricité de France (EDF), and though her pamphlet doesn't mention EDF, executives at the firm are not amused. They've summoned her to an Aug. 17 hearing to examine accusations that her own job performance is not up to scratch. Maier says...