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...Mike Romer, an HIID associate who has been working on development issues including macroeconomics, trade and industrialization since 1970, says having multiple missions all over the world gives HIID staffers greater perspective on the intricacies of growth...
...Having an international economic perspective is very helpful to developing countries and the experience of working directly with these nations is very useful at Harvard," Romer says...
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Clinton found another bit of encouragement in the re-election of Colorado Governor Roy Romer, a genuine New Democrat. When Clinton phoned to congratulate him, Romer urged the President to return to New Democrat themes. "People had expectations that he didn't deliver on," Romer told TIME in recounting the 15-minute talk. "They voted for change two years ago, and they don't see it happening." Romer also advised Clinton to "get out with the people more" and address "one of the anxieties that people have, that they're not being listened to." In typical fashion, Clinton, aides...
...council as a virtual R. and D. lab, allowing them to reap the benefits of millions of dollars of federal science money without having to contribute a dime. Others fear that the science bureaucracy will get bigger, not smaller, making it a tempting tool for pork- minded politicians. Paul Romer, an economist from the University of California, Berkeley, questions how effective the NSTC will be at dismantling wasteful or irrelevant programs. "It will make virtually no difference," he predicts. "That spending is there because somebody who is politically powerful wants it there...