Does the US Foreign Economic Assistance Program Have a Future?

Vernon Ruttan

Chapter 16 in Trade, Development and Political Economy, 2001, pp 285-303 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Since the mid-1990s, the US foreign economic assistance program has enjoyed a period of benign neglect. This is in sharp contrast to the late 1980s and early 1990s when the US Agency for International Development was the subject of vigorous criticism from both the right and the left. Reform proposals included the extensive reorganization or even the elimination of the agency. Changes in both the domestic and international political environment suggest that the US economic assistance program as it has been conceived and managed since the early 1950s is no longer viable. Some critics view this as a cause for celebration. But I come to this conclusion reluctantly.

Keywords: Development Assistance; Foreign Assistance; Clinton Administration; Economic Assistance; Assistance Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523685_16

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