Wringing Success from Failure in Late-Developing Countries
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Wringing Success from Failure in Late-Developing Countries

Lessons From the Field

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Wringing Success from Failure in Late-Developing Countries

Lessons From the Field

About this book

Development has alleviated poverty in many countries during the 50 years since the end of War World II, yet half of mankind remains poor; a fifth are very poor. Poverty is not a state of nature, but, as Stepanek shows, can be ascribed to manmade institutions that reflect self-serving and self-indulgent ideologies, poorly tested theories and policies, weak governments, and poverty alleviation programs that are questionably designed and poorly administered. Dr. Stepanek asserts that poverty cannot be alleviated without challenging all of its root causes, and he shows that well-designed development strategies and foreign assistance programs can create growth and reduce poverty. Western governments, international banks, and donor agencies must reexamine how they design and administer foreign aid if they are to be successful. Stepanek explains foreign aid in general and in specific, in history and theory, and in its present and practical forms.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
1999
Print ISBN
9780275965051
eBook ISBN
9780313389610

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Tables
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1. Poor People in a Poor World
  6. 2. Washington's AID Program
  7. 3. Why Asia Is Developing and Africa Is Not
  8. 4. Bangladesh Grows Its Own Food
  9. 5. Creating African Ownership with an Aid Presence
  10. 6. Agriculture Is Africa's First Source of Growth
  11. 7. Investment for Africa's Development
  12. 8. African Development Requires Democracy
  13. 9. Master of Their Own House: African Training and Western Advice
  14. 10. Endorsing Development in the Poor World
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index