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100 1 $aRuttan, Vernon W.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50031765
245 10 $aUnited States development assistance policy :$bthe domestic politics of foreign economic aid /$cVernon W. Ruttan.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c1996.
263 $a9601
300 $axxiv, 657 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe Johns Hopkins studies in development
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Domestic Sources of Foreign Assistance Policy --$g2.$tWhy Foreign Economic Assistance? --$g3.$tBefore Point Four --$g4.$tTechnical Assistance for Economic Development --$g5.$tDevelopment Policy from Eisenhower to Kennedy --$g6.$tThe Basic Human Needs Mandate --$g7.$tLost Directions: U.S. Foreign Assistance Policy since New Directions --$g8.$tThe Politics of Food Aid Policy --$g9.$tUniversities, Voluntary Organizations, and Public Foundations: Interests, Clients, and Constituencies --$g10.$tEconomic Assistance for Strategic Objectives --$g11.$tPolicy toward the Multilateral Lending Institutions --$g12.$tPolicy toward the Specialized Agencies and Voluntary Programs of the United Nations --$g13.$tReforming U.S. Foreign Economic Assistance --$g14.$tDoes AID Have a Future? --$tApp. A. U.S. Assistance to Strategically Important Countries --$tApp. B. U.N. Agency Administrators and Assistant Secretaries of State for International Affairs --$tApp. C. Agency Administrators, 1942-1991 --
505 80 $tApp. D. Presidents of the World Bank.
520 $aEconomist Vernon Ruttan offers a comprehensive review of United States development assistance policy from the end of World War II to the present. His emphasis is on the structures and programs that proliferated over the past fifty years designed to provide underdeveloped countries with technical and economic assistance. Ruttan follows the development of the U.S. Agency for International Development, quasi-governmental agencies, and private voluntary organizations.
520 8 $aHe also examines U.S. policy toward the World Bank, United Nations agencies, and other international development assistance organizations.
520 8 $aRuttan's interest is not to measure the impact of U.S. assistance programs but to examine the domestic political forces that have directed the development assistance policy of the United States. By this detailed review, he shows how political interests often detrimentally influenced development efforts. Ruttan concludes that the U.S. development assistance program is in disarray and that there is a real need for its deep re-evaluation and restructuring.
520 8 $aThe last two chapters of the book review past reform efforts and outline Ruttan's own recommendations. A large and important work from one of the most influential development economists active today, this book will serve as a reference both for specialists and for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of development issues.
650 0 $aEconomic assistance, American$zDeveloping countries$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPressure groups$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
830 0 $aJohns Hopkins studies in development.
852 00 $bleh$hHC60$i.R84 1996
852 00 $bleh$hHC60$i.R84 1996