Word: roemer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
More specifically. Roemer cites Korea and Hong Kong as two countries that have accomplished considerable economic growth but violate certain human rights...
Working in the developing world can be a nightmare, given the relative preponderance of human rights violations and political repression. For the staff of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), the ethical aspects of their overseas projects constitute, in the words of executive director Michael Roemer, "an almost daily concern...
...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...
...Roemer cites the hypothetical example of a country that wants to redistribute its wealth Such a policy, he says requires a firm hand--and one that might be considered out and out repressive because the rich would oppose...
...past and will inevitably encounter it again. In the early 1970s for example, the Institute" as asked by the Korean Development Institute (KDI) to work on a project that amounted to giving policy advice to the government Korea has had considerable success in promoting both absolute and relative growth, Roemer says. This in turn has led to increased investment and lower unemployment. But there is no political pluralism to speak of in Korea: most opposition leaders are in jail...