Word: hiid
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...HIID will consolidate foreign assistance programs conducted by the old DAS and other parts of the University, with the hope of encouraging an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of developing nations. This is partially in respons a feeling that both research into development and actual projects abroad would be enhanced by integrating specialists in fields such as education, public health and urban planning, with DAS economists...
...HIID administrator concedes, "The DAS was focused on what we found to be a simplistic version of development--economic growth." To some degree, the more comprehensive advisory capacity that Harvard is now gearing up to offer to the world takes cognizance of the belief that the distribution of economic and political fruits within a society is as important--if not more so--as a country's economic growth, even in developing nations. This was perhaps the most serious question raised by Vietnam-era critics who contended the DAS was insufficiently concerned with the composition and policies of the governments...
...HIID now has a team stationed in Tanzania, advising that socialist government on drawing up a long-range plan for its industrialization. Michael Roemer, the former project director in Tanzania, says that during the 1970-71 demonstrations, the DAS "perhaps looked harder for projects in socialist countries than we had before." And the Tanzania project, which was first broached to Harvard in late 1970 at the height of anti-CFIA activity, is a blue chip in what another staffer calls a policy of "getting a politically-diversified portfolio of project countries--as they would be seen from Harvard," pursued...
...HIID now says that an existing program in South Korea (where a one-man despotism is rapidly taking shape) will be terminated at the expiration of its contract this year because, as HIID Associate Director John C. Eddison says, "Harvard feels uncomfortable with political developments in Korea in the past year." He adds that HIID would like to end the involvement sooner except that there is some fear of repercussions against Koreans working with the advisory team if a sudden pullout were to occur...