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What could have been a very tricky situation faced Dwight H. Perkins three years ago when he took over as director of the Harvard Institute of International development (HIID).
Perkins, friends and colleagues say, proved and able conciliator--"smoothing over any differences," as one HHD official says, and getting the institute back on track in its primary function of research and advising third-world countries on development strategies.
In almost all respects colleagues describe Perkins as a pragmatist or a moderate--from his general political outlook to his handling of administrative matters to his approach to development issues.
"He doesn't come at it from a particular nation of ideology." HIID Executive director Michael Roemer says of Perkins's writings on Third world economics. Which are widely quoted in scholarly circles, Perkins explains. "I tend to approach contemporary problems from a historical perspective."
Perkins got his doctorate from Harvard in 1964 and while his original specialty was Chinese economics his work--including more than 50 articles and several books--has expanded to the more general questions of Asian and Third World development.