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...plethora of reform, development and exchange programs conducted by contractors and nonprofit organizations, many funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), fall in between. USAID??s West Bank/Gaza budget of $225 million, which includes providing equipment for Palestinian schools, micro-finance loans for entrepreneurs, and rule-of-law forums for Palestinian judges, is being reassessed by the Bush administration with the intent of cutting off any aid that could benefit the Palestinian government...
...government filed suit for fraud in 2000, alleging that the investments made by Shleifer and project manager Jonathan Hay, a former Harvard employee, violated USAID??s conflict of interest policy. The University was also named in the suit, which sought over $100 million in damages...
Under the second charge of fraud, Shleifer could also be found liable for violating the conflict-of-interest provision in USAID??s contracts with the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...
...because Shleifer was based in Cambridge while serving as adviser the project, he was not “assigned to” Russia. Rolling out their own former HIID director, lawyers for Shleifer and Harvard will call Dwight H. Perkins, the Burbank professor of political economy, to testify that USAID??s conflict-of-interest provision did not apply to Shleifer and others working on the project in Cambridge...
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