Enlightened Aid

U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia

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ID19965276
AuthorsAmanda Kay Mcvety (corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages297
Publication date2012-03-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEnlightened aid (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199796915.001.0001
OpenAlexW4237431607
Open LibraryOL25296998M
ISBN9780199796915
LanguageEN
Citations received8

In his 1949 inaugural address, Harry Truman vowed to make the development of the underdeveloped world a central part of America’s national security agenda. This commitment became policy the following year with the creation of Point Four—the first U.S. aid program to the developing world. Point Four technicians taught classes on public health and irrigation, distributed chickens and vaccines, and helped build schools and water treatment facilities. They did all of it in the name of development, believing that economic progress would lead to social and political progress, which, in turn, would ensure that recipient nations would become prosperous democratic participants in the global community of nations. Point Four was a weapon in the fight against poverty, but it was also a weapon in the fight against the Soviet Union. Eisenhower reluctantly embraced it and Kennedy made it a central part of his international policy agenda, turning Truman’s program into the United States Agency for International Development. Point Four had proven itself to be a useful tool of diplomacy, and subsequent administrations claimed it for themselves. None seemed overly worried that it had not also proven itself to be a particularly useful tool of development. Using Ethiopia as a case study, Enlightened Aid: Development as Foreign Policy examines the struggle between foreign aid for diplomacy and foreign aid for development. Point Four’s creators believed that aid could be both at the same time. The history of U.S. aid to Ethiopia suggests otherwise

Computer Science · Religion, Society, and Development · Africa · American Economic assistance · Economic assistance, american · Economic conditions · Economic development · Ethiopia · Ethipia · Finance · History

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