Tag: Robert Bates

  • Campus & Community

    Researchers analyze ‘Africa effect,’ the slow growth of some economies

    African governments were instrumental in inhibiting the growth of their own economies in the late 20th century, according to a decade-long project conducted by African scholars and economists. Robert Bates, professor of government in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been immersed in this economic survey, helping the economists to understand that governmental role.

    3–5 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Undergraduates observe Rwandan attempts at justice

    The Rwandan genocide memorial was a tiny one-room church, pervaded still by a penetrating stench. On a table in the church was a pile of human skulls and femurs, a startling reminder of the people who sought shelter there in 1994 when the killers came calling. “It just struck me that in this one church…

    5–7 minutes