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Members of the Boca set mostly earn their money from things visible: real estate, high-tech electronics, retail chains, minerals and oil. They are generally in businesses that can be handled over the phone. Floyd and Bonnie Perkins spend most of their winters at their four-bed room home in...
But both Perkins and Roemer stress that working in the Third World is a subtle exercise. "Anything you do in less-developed countries to promote the weltere of the people might be done at the same time a government is repressing its people in other spheres says Roemer.
Perkins asserts that the problem in East Timor has no direct bearing on HIID's project or vice versa. If anything he adds. "We are doing quite a bit of good there."
"Above all," states Perkins, "We work for the country and not to impose outside views Our aim is to train people, not perpetuate ourselves or our thinking."
Pragmatism, then, seems to underlie HIID's projects. At one time or another, there are human eights violations in most countries, particularly in the Third World HIID says Perkins, must work within the system of its host country to be effective. It that system becomes inconsistent with the Institute's...