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...forum, titled "The Gulf War Is Not Over For the Children of Iraq," featured Peter Pellett, head of the Department of Nutrition at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Mary Smith Fawzi, a research associate for the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...current largesse would be possible if the government had adopted a novel reconstruction plan drafted during the Iraqi occupation. A small group of Kuwaiti technocrats had proposed creating a Kuwaiti-run corporation to oversee the postwar rebuilding. "For years we have sought to expand beyond our oil base," explains Fawzi al-Sultan, a Kuwaiti who serves as an executive director at the World Bank in Washington. "By taking charge of the reconstruction effort ourselves, we would have cut costs and developed an expertise we could have then marketed worldwide. But the politics was wrong. Agencies and other forms of patronage...
...about 50 U.S. Army civil-affairs reservists, the - cream of Kuwait's ministerial employees have been meeting quietly in a downtown Washington office building for six weeks. While Finance Minister Khalifa conceived the project and continues to monitor its progress, the day- to-day work is being directed by Fawzi al-Sultan, a Yale-educated Kuwaiti who has been a World Bank executive director since 1984. Every conceivable need is being addressed. Enough material to equip eight hospitals and a score of clinics, for example, is being purchased from U.S. and European medical- supply companies...
...proposed shift in education policy will aid a radical transformation of Kuwait's economy. As oil is a nonrenewable resource, Kuwait's leaders are eager for their country to develop in new directions. "We can become the Route 128 of the Middle East," says Fawzi al-Sultan, referring to Boston's beltway dotted with high-tech managerial and consulting firms. "We can be the financial brains behind industrial enterprises in the rest of the gulf and in the Arab world at large. As our ancestors were often away as merchant traders, so large numbers of us can be working abroad...
...governmental decree. The other is to let market forces play. While the goal is set -- if still unstated -- the manner of execution is not. Those planning for New Kuwait hope for fiat but are prepared for the slower course. "If, for example, the welfare system is cut back," says Fawzi al-Sultan, "if a person who has three servants, which is not unusual, suddenly has to pay the medical bills of those servants in place of the government, then that person is going to think twice about having three as help. So market forces can do the job. It takes...