Resources Tagged: Economic Assistance
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From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world.
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This study combines both extensive and intensive analysis of development assistance programs in Asia, and focuses specifically on five case studies which provide the basis for the author's strong conviction that Third World development assistance programs must be part of a holistically perceived...
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The purpose of this report is to provide the missing stocktaking of the U.S. contributions to the Millennium Development Goals from a U.S. international non-profit (U.S. NGO) perspective. In undertaking this study, a major challenge has been the limitation of data, since the federal budget does...
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Two practical visionaries upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor...
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The situation in the South has been presented in the following chapters, as the writer has seen it for a period of years. He claims that the advantage of being on the ground, as a close student of the existing situation, gives him at least some advantage in the presentation of his views, and a...
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1965-01-01 This book attempts to open a door upon the enormously difficult possiblity that men may improve themselves. There is no certainty that this possibility is realizable. This book begins with an intimate view of the phenomenon under consideration-human beings in process of self-chosen change....
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An independent audit of foreign assistance success.
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To help developing countries take full advantage of its services, the Investment Centre keeps its administravtive procedures as simply as possible. The easiest way for a Governement to request help is by contacting the FAO country Representative or by writing to the Director of the Investment...
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In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing Afad rican nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase...
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2011-01-01 This book covers 16 critical topics, like climate change, agricultural development and health, as well as countries deemed important to U.S. national interests, such as Afghanistan.