US Economic Development Policies Towards the Pacific Rim
Successes and Failures of US Aid
Will be published approx. on 11. July 2000
Book
Hardback
XII, 177 pages
978-0-333-67014-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Prepublication praise for US Economic Development Policies Towards the Pacific Rim: 'US Economic Development Policies Towards the Pacific Rim is a lucidly argued brief for the combination of international cooperation, effective governments, and market-based development as the foundation of successful strategies. The book will be valuable reading for global policymakers seeking a way out of the current imbroglios in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition, its mix of applied experience and analytical brio will appeal to most classroom audiences.' - John Adams, Affliliation 'Exploring the 'success stories' of economic development in Korea, Taiwan, and Costa Rica, and the relative failures elsewhere in Central America, this book advances our understanding of the circumstances when foreign aid truly promotes development and why. The authors build a persuasive case that success has been founded on New Deal-style redistributive policies, whereas failure has resulted from Cold War-style support to oligarchic regimes.' - James Boyce, University of Massachusetts, AmherstMore details
Edition
2000 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XII, 177 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
311 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-67014-9 (9780333670149)
DOI
10.1057/9780333983867
Schweitzer Classification
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Successes and Failures of US Aid
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Successes and Failures of US Aid
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Persons
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
Vietnam: Peasant Land, Peasant Revolution
. 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
Women in the Age of Economic Transformation
. She is co-editor of
The Women Gender and Development Reader
.
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 Rethinking Marxism, Review of Radical Political Economics and Research in Political Economy . Professor Medley is founding editor of Rethinking Marxism .
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 Rethinking Marxism, Review of Radical Political Economics and Research in Political Economy . Professor Medley is founding editor of Rethinking Marxism .
Content
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