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Subtitle: U.S. policy and poorly performing states
By: Nancy Birdsall, Milan Vaishnav, editors.
Contributors: Birdsall, Nancy.; Vaishnav, Milan.; Center for Global Development.
Publisher: Center for Global Development
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9781933286051
Subjects: Economic assistance, American -- Developing countries; Infrastructure (Economics) -- Developing countries; United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Developing countries
Description: "Analyzes U.S. policy toward poorly performing states that are ineligible for new U.S. foreign assistance programs and examines the role of specific policy instruments in building state capacity to prevent deterioration and collapse"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A mismatch with consequences : U.S. foreign policy and the security-development nexus / Jeremy M. Weinstein and Milan Vaishnav; title: Life support or assisted suicide? : dilemmas of U.S. policy towards the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Pierre Englebert; title: The dysfunctional state of Nigeria / Peter M. Lewis; title: Indonesia as a poorly performing state? / Andrew MacIntyre; title: Reforming Central Asia / Martha Brill Olcott; title: No quick fix : foreign aid and state performance in Yemen / Sheila Carapico; title: Burma/Myanmar : the U.S.-Burmese relationship and its vicissitudes / David Steinberg; title: Making peace perform in war transition countries : El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua / Susan Burgerman; title: Poorly performing countries : toward a framework for U.S. assistance / Carol Lancaster; title: Aid through trade : an effective option? / Arvind Panagariya; title: Foreign direct investment and the development of low-income poorly performing states / Theodore H. Moran; title: The persisting poverty of strategic analysis in U.S. democracy assistance / David W. Yang; title: U.S. military and police assistance to poorly performing states / Adam Isacson and Nicole Ball.