Word: developmental
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Nor does there now seem to be a conscious policy of discrimination on the Center's part against leftist thinkers; the radical approach to foreign policy is a new and highly rare development within social science, and it is the paucity of this approach, rather than overt antagonism to it...
BUT WHAT of the less theoretical, more concrete work which the Center performs? This work is undertaken exclusively by the Development Advisory Service (DAS), the largest wing of the CFIA, which places economic advisors in the employ of underdeveloped governments to counsel them on the implementation of basic policy.
The DAS traces its origins to 1954, when the Ford Foundation, acting on behalf of the Pakistani government, approached the Harvard School of Public Administration and its dean, Edward Mason. The Foundation, it was agreed, would fund a three-year field project in Pakistan to be carried out by Harvard...
The DAS decided at the outset that it would make the following considerations in deciding whether to accept a particular country's bid to become a client government: 1) the academic interest posed by that country's development problems; 2) the likelihood of gaining access to vital economic information and...
The government in Pakistan at the time of the Harvard team's arrival there was in many ways the same as that of the recently departed British colonizers: undemocratic, elitist, institutionally repressive. In order to revive their stagnating economy, the Pakistani leaders had commissioned the Harvard group to shape up...