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...Eddison says HIID "took quite a beating" during the early '70s as the traditional sources of funding for its projects--the Ford Foundation and the U.N. Development Program--began to dry up. Before, host countries could depend on these funding sources for the HIID programs, but today the institute's clients must fund the projects themselves, often with loans on favorable terms from the World Bank and other international lending institutions...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: The Whole World in His Hands | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...hope that a moderate regime would come in, a reform regime. And there was evidence, we thought, that a number of the relatively informed, educated, enlightened Ethiopians might well take power," Eddison says. "But that didn't happen. A number of them were jailed or killed and eventually the power shift went the other way to the extreme left...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: The Whole World in His Hands | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...months after the government began to look for more radical solutions to the country's problems. "Where a country wants to move to the extreme left, they don't want us and we're really not in the position to give them the kind of advice they're seeking," Eddison explains...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: The Whole World in His Hands | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...Sudan project is much more like a peace corps project. The people are younger, they're living far more simply, putting up with much more hardship--they are out in the bush gathering data, living close to the land and the people," Eddison says...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: The Whole World in His Hands | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...development--are barely aware of the work of HIID as Harvard's representatives in the Third World. "Our position is that we don't go out of our way to have public relations releases. It's not like we're trying to drum up business like a private firm," Eddison says. Unlike most other centers of research at Harvard, HIID makes no funds available to undergraduates who are interested in economic development projects. Cole says HIID has included funding for undergraduate research in many of the grants it has requested from foundations during the past several years, but the requests...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: The Whole World in His Hands | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

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