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US economic development policies towards the Pacific Rim : successes and failures of US aid / Nan Wiegersma and Joseph E. Medley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiegersma, Nancy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic assistance, American.
- Pacific Area--Economic conditions.
- Pacific Area.
- Economic conditions.
- Asia--Economic conditions.
- Asia.
- Economic assistance, American--Pacific Area.
- Economic assistance, American--Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- U.S. economic development policies towards the Pacific Rim
- United States economic development policies towards the Pacific Rim
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- US aid interventions have greatly advantaged some countries in their quest for development, but not others. The extensive development assistance that the United States government granted Taiwan and South Korea in their development and the aid recently given Costa Rica were important factors in their development successes. On the other hand, the inappropriate policies of the US in Vietnam in the fifties, El Salvador in the eighties and Nicaragua in the nineties, programmed these interventions to economic as well as political failure.
- Contents:
- 1 Aid and development 1
- 2 Successes and failures: US aid in the postwar era 16
- 3 Agriculture in Taiwan and South Korea 35
- 4 Industrialization in Taiwan and Korea 50
- 5 US intervention in Vietnam 71
- 6 US aid to El Salvador and Nicaragua 94
- 7 Costa Rican aid 115
- 8 Aid policy conclusion in an era of financial crisis 133.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312231296
- 031223130X
- OCLC:
- 42708129
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