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U.S. Development Aid–An Historic First: Achievements and Failures in the Twentieth Century: 108
Author(s): Samuel Hale Butterfield (Author)
- Publisher: Praeger (UK)
- Publication Date: 30 Aug. 2004
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 0313319103
- ISBN-13: 9780313319105
Book Description
The survey addresses the role of Congress, important program foundations established in the 1950s, creative initiatives of the 1960s, frustrated promises in Vietnam. It explores the Third World’s unexpected population explosion; America’s evolving technical assistance work in the core sectors such as agriculture, education, health, and administration; and initiatives to reach the rural poor and promote the development role of women. It also comments upon linkages between policy dialogue and financial aid to promote market-oriented policy reforms, Africa’s lagging development, and the decline of U.S. development aid in the 1990s.
Editorial Reviews
Review
?[A]n exhaustive quasi-memoir by a retired foreign aid officer at USAID. It is, in part, a fond reminiscence of his career, but in larger part, a defense of USAID’s work from the inside, as well as the global foreign aid project of the developed world. It is not misty-eyed about the poor — useful insights about the practicalities of foreign aid operations and impediments to their success abound. But its true value derives from the concrete, meticulous, well-organized, occasionally pedantic, chronology and description of USAID’s actual day-to-day work in the field from its inception almost up to the present.?-EH.NET
?Scholars devoted to this topic may find some useful discussion of the early history of US foreign aid and a number of interesting tidbits scattered throughout the book….Comprehensive research collections.?-Choice
“ÝA¨ welcome explanation, free of jargon and academic language, that would be useful to many USAID recent hires as well as the wider general public interested in aid….Ýt¨ruly a tour de force for anyone wanting to gain broad, historical, and in-depth understanding of foreign aid.”-Front Lines
“ÝA¨n exhaustive quasi-memoir by a retired foreign aid officer at USAID. It is, in part, a fond reminiscence of his career, but in larger part, a defense of USAID’s work from the inside, as well as the global foreign aid project of the developed world. It is not misty-eyed about the poor — useful insights about the practicalities of foreign aid operations and impediments to their success abound. But its true value derives from the concrete, meticulous, well-organized, occasionally pedantic, chronology and description of USAID’s actual day-to-day work in the field from its inception almost up to the present.”-EH.NET
“[A]n exhaustive quasi-memoir by a retired foreign aid officer at USAID. It is, in part, a fond reminiscence of his career, but in larger part, a defense of USAID’s work from the inside, as well as the global foreign aid project of the developed world. It is not misty-eyed about the poor — useful insights about the practicalities of foreign aid operations and impediments to their success abound. But its true value derives from the concrete, meticulous, well-organized, occasionally pedantic, chronology and description of USAID’s actual day-to-day work in the field from its inception almost up to the present.”-EH.NET
“Scholars devoted to this topic may find some useful discussion of the early history of US foreign aid and a number of interesting tidbits scattered throughout the book….Comprehensive research collections.”-Choice
“[A] welcome explanation, free of jargon and academic language, that would be useful to many USAID recent hires as well as the wider general public interested in aid….[t]ruly a tour de force for anyone wanting to gain broad, historical, and in-depth understanding of foreign aid.”-Front Lines
