Word: rodrik
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...academic focus, the plan tries to return to what Rodrik says he and other faculty believed was the center’s original intent. Financially, the plan grows out of concerns on the part of the central administration not to repeat the ways of the last four years...
...main point is that CID really ought to be a research center that serves the needs of Harvard faculty and Harvard students,” Rodrik says. “We should not be in the business of providing technical assistance or policy advice and consulting...
...will be willing to provide support for practical research in the developing world, but only in cases where there are clear academic or instructional benefits to be gained, Rodrik says...
...Over time CID took on more of the attributes of HIID than I or [the committee] thought desirable,” Rodrik says. “We’re concentrated on going back to CID’s root in that sense...
...Rodrik and others on the committee describe how Sachs put a strong intellectual stamp on the center. The jet-setting Sachs brought Harvard’s development center prestige and media attention—he appeared with U2 singer Bono to advocate debt relief and advised the U.N. secretary general on poverty reduction...