Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I like it that the wood and mud-brick houses of towns have yet to become drab, concrete cities, that the villagers have not traded their packhorses for personal cars, that food is still cooked in hot pots over live, burning coals, that the women still wear their brightly colored...
But the rest of China is changing. Domestic tourism is booming as the increasingly prosperous Chinese overflow into Yunnan's parks, ethnic music halls and village markets, gorging themselves on their newly acquired freedom to travel. Tourism, it seems, is one way the wealth of the coastal cities is being...
Project Associate in the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) Sara E. Sievers '90 has been appointed the first executive director of the newly formed Harvard Center for International Development (HCID).
HCID, a joint venture between the HIID and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was formed earlier this summer in order to give increased emphasis to international development research and teaching, said Jeffrey D. Sachs, who is director of HCID and HIID.
A former State Department vice consul at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Sievers recently completed a study on African development that won praise from the international community, Sachs said. Called the African Competitiveness Report, the study surveyed business leaders and government officials on prospects for growth in 24 African countries...