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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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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.