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...editorial yesterday criticizing the Center for International Development (CID) failed to draw a precise distinction between the institute and the now-dismantled Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). In particular, the editorial overstated the extent to which HIID resources have been allocated...
...interest investments. They are also charged with using U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funds for their own private operations. More importantly, the suit implicates Harvard University, alleging that it failed to supervise and report known wrongdoings. Schleifer and Hay were working through the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), which received $40 million in grants from the USAID for this project...
Before it was disbanded, HIID had 20 overseas offices, 25 more international programs headquartered in Cambridge and an annual budget of over $34 million. But research done by HIID staff was never passed directly to graduate or undergraduate students. When a faculty review committee ruled last winter that HIID should be dissolved, it rightly based part of its decision on the idea that HIID's purpose was incompatible with Harvard's central mission of teaching and research...
What is troubling, however, is that all of HIID's resources and international development activities have been shifted toward the newly formed Center for International Development (CID). To an outside observer, this step seems like the tactic of some Nepali hotels that change their names on a regular basis to avoid taxation. Even though CID now has a different, more Cambridge-focused mission--as opposed to HIID, CID does not have any permanent overseas offices--it is in many ways a clone of its scandal-plagued predecessor. CID has adopted many similar projects and employs a large percentage of HIID...
...HIID, the Harvard organization that administered the program, was disbanded July 1. The move was recommended to Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 last winter by a special University taskforce. Administrators said the decision was not influenced by the alleged improprieties in the Russian program...