Dwight Heald Perkins II (born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1934) is an American academic, economist, sinologist, and professor at Harvard University.
Perkins graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1952,[1] and later attended <<
[2] He was a member of the Department of Economics within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and also served at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
In 1975, he led a delegation from the Committee on Scholarly Communications with the People's Republic of China (CSCPRC) to study rural industry.
During his tenure as director of HIID, the Institute had resident advisers on macroeconomics, government management and legal reform, environmental regulation, maternal and child health, and education in the relevant ministries in 27 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe (Dwight H. Perkins, Richard Pagett, Michael Roemer, Donald Snodgrass, and Joseph Stern, Assisting Development in a Changing World: The Harvard Institute for International Development, 1980-1995 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997); and HIID biannual reports.
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Dwight H. Perkins, the OCLC/WorldCat database encompasses roughly 100 works in over 250 publications in 7 languages and is held by 6,900+ libraries.