Word: usaid
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...case that dates back to the early 1990s. Over the summer, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion against Harvard for $102 million, alleging conflicts of interest that violated the Harvard Institute for International Development’s (HIID) contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Russia from 1992 to 1997. During that time, HIID was advising the restructuring of the Russian economy—and HIID’s officers were under strict orders, the U.S. says, not to personally invest in the companies that their work gave them influence over. Today, the federal court...
HIID does not exist anymore—it was disbanded in 2000. Between 1992 and 1997, however, USAID provided Harvard with $40 million for HIID’s operations in Russia. Andrei Shleifer directed the institute in the early years of the contract and remains a tenured professor in the economics department here. Jonathan Hay, his deputy working in Russia, has since been dismissed by the University...
...production manager. "We saw how we could help fill this void." After months of discussion, Takalani Sesame came up with Kami, a ginger-haired, golden-yellow Muppet who joins the show starting Sept. 30 for 104 half-hour episodes. With backing from the Department of Education and sponsors including USAID and Sanlam, one of the country's major insurance companies, the program will go out not only on TV but - another first for a Sesame production - on radio and through an outreach and training program that includes printed material and puppet shows. "We hope to reach a stage where every...
...federal government, which provided $50 million in funding for the project through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), said that Shleifer and Hay had engaged in unethical behavior and breached agreements with the government by investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian companies. The government contends that these companies were directly affected by Shleifer’s and Hay’s advice...
...USAID routinely praised HIID’s efforts, calling the work historic and extremely successful,” Harvard lawyers wrote in a motion submitted to the court. “Now...USAID says that all of HIIDs work in Russia was rendered valueless by a handful of nominal personal investments made by Andrei Shleifer and Jonathan Hay while they were serving as advisors to the Russian government...