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Almost two months after Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 announced his decision to dissolve the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), administrators are reaching consensus on how to divvy up the institute's many programs...
Since its founding in 1974, HIID has always maintained a healthy independence from the individual schools--reporting instead to the provost's office--and acted as a means to centralize the University's programs in foreign policy consulting, focusing on four areas: environment, macroeconomics, public finance, and health, education, and welfare...
...task force report says changes in the field of international development and the growth of HIID brought the institute further and further from its original purpose and form, prompting them to consider reorganizing...
...recent years the institute has been troubled by claims of mismanagement and a Justice Department investigation of Professor of Economics Andrei Schleifer '82 and his former colleague on HIID's Russian project, Jonathan Hay. Both were accused of using their knowledge of the Russian economy to help private investors...
...according to both Sachs and Sievers, more money will need to come from somewhere. The $30 million sum coming from HIID's original allotment and this current fundraising drive may not cover expenses...