Assisting development in a changing world : the Harvard Institute for International Development, 1980-1995 / edited by Dwight H. Perkins... [and others].

Essays designed to give an overview of HIID projects and their accomplishments from 1980 to 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Dwight H. Perkins, Richard Pagett and Michael Roemer [and others] -- 1. Technical Assistance in the University Context / Dwight H. Perkins -- 2. Research and Publication: Lessons of Experience / Michael Roemer -- 3. Indonesia: Economic Policy Reform / Michael Roemer and Joseph J. Stern -- 4. Kenya: Advice and Training / John M. Cohen and Stephen B. Peterson -- 5. The Gambia and Zambia: A Common Path to Macroeconomic Stability / Malcolm F. McPherson -- 6. Introducing Market Forces into Former Command Economies / Dwight H. Perkins -- 7. Tax Reform / Glenn P. Jenkins, Robert Conrad and Graham Glenday [and others] -- 8. Food and Agricultural Policy and Rural Development / John M. Cohen, Charles K. Mann and Pauline E. Peters -- 9. Economic Policy Reform Studies / Clive S. Gray -- 10. The Public Enterprise Program / Richard D. Mallon -- 11. Work on Small-Scale Enterprise / Donald R. Snodgrass -- 12. Sustainable Microfinance / Marguerite S. Robinson --

13. The International Environment Program / Theodore Panayotou and Jeffrey R. Vincent -- 14. The Health Program / Charles N. Meyers and Jonathon L. Simon -- 15. Work in the Education Sector / Noel F. McGinn, Thomas J. Cassidy and Fernando M. Reimers [and others] -- 16. Gender Analysis for Economic Development / Martha A. Chen and Pauline E. Peters -- 17. Policy Research Institutes / Donald R. Snodgrass -- 18. Teaching, Training, and Public Policy Programs / Mary E. Hilderbrand and John W. Thomas -- 19. New Initiatives / Joseph J. Stern.

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 sector 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 and Vietnam) as well as in the mixed plan/market economies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The volume also describes HIID's efforts to work on reform in the fields of education and health as well as in the rapidly expanding area of environmental economics and policy.