Assisting Development in a Changing World: The Harvard Institute for International Development, 1980-1995 (Harvard Studies in International Affairs) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674049977 ISBN 13: 9780674049970

Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School, 1997

Synopsis

For over forty years the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) has worked with countries in the developing world on the complex issues of economic and social reform. This volume describes the experience of the Institute in the challenging development assistance world of the 1980s and early 1990s, when HIID's largest projects involved work with countries attempting to move away from high levels of government intervention to more market-friendly systems. These efforts involved work in formerly centrally planned command economies (e.g., Russia, Vietnam, etc.) as well as in the mixed plan/market economies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The book also describes HIID's efforts in education and health reform as well as in the rapidly expanding area of environmental economics and policy.

Assisting Development in a Changing World is an unvarnished account written by the HIID practitioners who participated in these programs and edited by its former director and executive directors.

About this title

About the Authors

Dwight H. Perkins is the H. H. Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard, and a faculty fellow and former director of the Harvard Institute for International Development.

Donald R. Snodgrass is a Fellow of the Harvard Institute for International Development and a Lecturer on Economics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674049977
• ISBN 13: 9780674049970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 533
• Editor: Perkins Dwight H., Pagett Richard, Roemer Michael, Snodgrass Donald R., Stern Joseph J.