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Summers will also be joined in Santiago by Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez and Fasid Professor of International Development Andres Velasco, Coatsworth said...
...recruitment of such luminaries as William Julius Wilson, Christopher Jencks and Andres Velasco has brought KSG increased academic gravitas, faculty collaboration has increased dramatically...
...Most of all, perhaps, Barshefsky was optimistic on account of the widespread consensus that renewed economic growth is vital to the region - and that free trade is the best and fastest way to that growth. This view got strong endorsement from Andrés Velasco, Sumitomo professor of international finance and development at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a former adviser to Chile in free-trade talks with the U.S. "Growth is the key question facing Latin America today," Velasco said. Analyzing the ways that developing nations could achieve more rapid growth, he said a "great...
...Fishlow was joined in his skepticism of a quick free-trade fix by Velasco, who observed that U.S. enthusiasm for a deal also remained dubious, especially given congressional reluctance to grant fast-track authority to the White House to negotiate without subsequent legislative amendment. That drew the boldest proposal of all from Barshefsky, who in November 1999 successfully concluded a U.S.-China trade agreement that had previously dragged on for 13 years. Fast tracking, widely seen as a totem of U.S. trade commitment, was not absolutely necessary, she said, and had not been a factor in the China deal...
...this fight--Castro and Miami's Cuban-exile lobby, the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF)--both want their new missile crisis to last and revive the waning influence they enjoyed during the cold war. "They need this fight the way you and I need oxygen," says Dr. Raul de Velasco, head of the moderate Miami-based Cuban Committee for Democracy. Attorney General Reno insists that keeping Elian here will set a precedent that could in turn make U.S. children legally vulnerable abroad. But at the same time, Al Gore needs Florida votes. As a result, although Reno has demanded that...