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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : McVety, Amanda Kay (1978-....)
Titre(s) : Enlightened aid [Texte électronique] : U.S. development as foreign policy in Ethiopia / Amanda Kay McVety
Publication : New York : Oxford University Press, cop. 2012
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (x, 297 pages)
Note(s) : " ... a unique history of foreign aid. The book begins with the modern concept of
progress in the Scottish Enlightenment, follows the development of this concept in
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century economics and anthropology, describes its
transformation from a concept into a tool of foreign policy, and ends with the current
debate about foreign aid's utility. In his 1949 inaugural address, Harry Truman vowed
to make the development of the underdeveloped world a central part of the U.S. government's
national security agenda. This commitment became policy the following year with the
creation of Point Four--America's first aid program to the developing world. Point
Four technicians shared technology, know-how, and capital with people in nations around
the world. They taught classes on public health and irrigation, distributed chickens
and vaccines, and helped build schools and water treatment facilities. They did all
of this in the name of development, believing that economic progress would lead to
social and political progress, which, in turn, would ensure that Point Four recipient
nations would become prosperous democratic participants in the global community of
nations. Point Four was a weapon in the fight against poverty, but it was also a weapon
in the fight against the Soviet Union. Eisenhower reluctantly embraced it and Kennedy
made it a central part of his international policy agenda, turning Truman's program
into the United States Agency for International Development. Point Four had proven
itself to be a useful tool of diplomacy, and subsequent administrations claimed it
for themselves. None seemed overly worried that it had not also proven itself to be
a particularly useful tool of development. Using Ethiopia as a case study, Enlightened
Aid examines the struggle between foreign aid-for-diplomacy and foreign aid-for-development.
Point Four's creators believed that aid could be both at the same time. The history
of U.S. aid to Ethiopia suggests otherwise."--Provided by publisher.
Sujet(s) : Développement économique -- Finances
Histoire économique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199796939
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb427622305
Notice n° :
FRBNF42762230
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: the American answer -- Improving nations -- A global economy -- Strategic
Ethiopia -- Truman's Fourth Point -- The Ethiopian experiment -- The development decade
-- Rethinking the American answer.
