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Informationen zum Autor Amanda Kay McVety is Associate Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Enlightened Aid examines the intellectual and political origins of Point Four, the first American aid program for the developing world, and the economic and diplomatic implications of its operations in Ethiopia. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION: The American Answer CHAPTER ONE: Improving Nations CHAPTER TWO: A Global Economy CHAPTER THREE: Strategic Ethiopia CHAPTER FOUR: Truman's Fourth Point CHAPTER FIVE: The Ethiopian Experiment CHAPTER SIX: The Development Decade CHAPTER SEVEN: Rethinking the American Answer Notes Bibliography Index
