Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development As Foreign Policy In Ethiopia

Enlightened Aid is a unique history of foreign aid. The book begins with the modern concept of progress in the Scottish Enlightenment, follows the development of this concept in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century economics and anthropology, describes its transformation from a concept into a tool of foreign policy, and ends with the current debate about foreign aid's utility. In his 1949 inaugural address, Harry Truman vowed to make the development of the underdeveloped world a central part of the U.S. government's national security agenda. This commitment became policy the following year with the creation of Point Four--America's first aid program to the developing world . . . Using Ethiopia as a case study, Enlightened Aid 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.

• | Author: Amanda Kay McVety
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0190257784
• | ISBN-13: 9780190257781