Enlightened aid
Subtitle: U.S. development as foreign policy in Ethiopia
By: Amanda Kay McVety
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780190257781
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Economic development; American Economic assistance; Economic conditions; Finance; History
Description: Enlightened Aid is 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 . . . 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.
Notes: Originally published: 2012 (with a slightly different subtitle).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the American answer; title: Improving nations; title: A global economy; title: Strategic Ethiopia; title: Truman's fourth point; title: The Ethiopian experiment; title: The development decade; title: Rethinking the "American answer."