Wiegersma / Medley US Economic Development Policies Towards the Pacific Rim

Successes and Failures of US Aid
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-333-98386-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 177 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Economics and Finance (R0)

US aid interventions have greatly advantaged some countries in their quest for development, but not others. The extensive development assistance, technology transfers and market access 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiegersma, N.

Medley, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements Aid and Development Successes and Failures: US Aid in the Postwar Era Agriculture in Taiwan and South Korea Industrialization in Taiwan and Korea US Intervention in Vietnam United States Aid to El Salvador and Nicaragua Costa Rica Aid Aid Policy Conclusions in an Era of Financial Crisis Bibliography Appendices Index

Über Autor(innen)

NAN WIEGERSMA is a Professor of Economics at Fitchburg State College. She has published numerous articles about land tenure, gender and development in journals and a previous book. She was a Fullbright Fellow in Nicaragua in 1991, studying women's work in export processing zones. The research from this study was published in. She is co-editor of .

JOSEPH E. MEDLEY is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. He has participated in research projects in China, Mexico, Central America and southern Africa. He has published articles on US economic and political interventions, development and imperialism in journals including and. Professor Medley is founding editor of.