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...South Africa has not created new jobs in 30 years. He inherited a difficult system," says Robert I. Rotberg, research associate at the Harvard International Institute of Development...
Harvard has long numbered distinguished Africanists among its faculty. When a graduate student in the 1960s, I took courses from Martin Kilson, Rupert Emerson and Robert Rotberg (I mention only political scientists). Since that time, the ranks of Harvard's Africanists have deepened dramatically...
...This is the first time in the long history of South Africa that the whites have acknowledged that their best chance is to negotiate openly with Africans," says Robert I. Rotberg, a professor of history and political science at Tufts University. "What they have done is move South Africa from way out in the outfield to closer to home plate...
...worry about being optimistic," Rotberg says, "but after a long drought, it has begun to sprinkle...
...equally tough stricture against lending out more funds at any time than its entire capital plus reserves. By contrast, most commercial banks lend up to 17 times their capitalization. As a consequence of its conservative policies, the World Bank enjoys a triple-A credit rating. Says Treasurer Eugene Rotberg: "We are one of the rare institutions in Washington that have to meet a market test...