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...Peter Timmer, Black professor of Development Studies at Large, recently completed a study of price support of agricultural products. His recommendations will soon be evidenced in new technical training programs established by the Ministry of Agriculture...
While the HIID's reputation earns it grants to do development work worldwide, in the case of the Philippines many of its projects came about through the "old-boy" network. Timmer was asked by a former student of his at Stanford, who is a Philippine official, to head a task force on food logistic issues. And Thomas was contacted by his former student Alvarez, Minister of Agrarian Reform...
...says he believes the value of the HIID to the Aquino government is its ability to offer an informed outsider's perspective, which is partly based on past experience. During the past 25-years, the Institute has conducted projects in nearly 30 countries, mostly in Asia and Africa. Peter Timmer, for example, spent 17 years working on agricultural policy in Indonesia...
...Timmer's report he attempted to provide the Minister of Agriculture with various trade-offs between policy alternatives. "The human capital the Philippines has to work with is quite impressive. The question for outsiders is just if you can stimulate discussions, help with their framework and apply our international comparative expertise," says Timmer...
...HRIDF is also appealing to the faculty. C. Peter Timmer, Black Professor of Agriculture and Business, Stanley H. Hoffmann, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, and Diana L. Eck, professor of Hindu religion, have agreed to write letters to their colleagues on behalf of the HRIDF...