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.

This volume examines major theories of the relationships between education and political and economic development in the context of experiences of South Korea. Covering the years 1945-1975, the book includes analyses of changes in curriculum goals and practices, the impact of planning, costs and financing of education and political and economic outcomes. It reviews previous works in English and Korean and analyzes previously unavailable sociological and economic data.