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The price of aid : the economic cold war in India /

Debates over foreign aid can seem strangely innocent of history. Economists argue about effectiveness and measurement--how to make aid work. Meanwhile, critics in donor countries bemoan what they see as money wasted on corrupt tycoons or unworthy recipients. What most ignore is the essentially polit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Engerman, David C., 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Foreign aid and development politics in India
  • Part I. Learning development, 1947-1955: Debating development and discovering India
  • Inventing development aid
  • Part II. The heyday of the economic cold war, 1955-1966: The geopolitics of economic expertise
  • The aid project and cold war competition
  • "Free money" and the tilt toward the West
  • Military supply and the vicissitudes of development politics
  • Part III. The bitter fruits of development politics, 1960-1974: Bets, bargains, and the price for American aid
  • Soviet aid from inspiration to armory
  • India's double crisis and the price of aid
  • Conclusion: Development politics and the price of aid.