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Does the US Foreign Economic Assistance Program Have a Future?

In: Trade, Development and Political Economy

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  • Vernon W. Ruttan

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Since the mid-1990s, the US foreign economic assistance program has enjoyed a period of benign neglect. This is in sharp contrast to the late 1980s and early 1990s when the US Agency for International Development was the subject of vigorous criticism from both the right and the left. Reform proposals included the extensive reorganization or even the elimination of the agency. Changes in both the domestic and international political environment suggest that the US economic assistance program as it has been conceived and managed since the early 1950s is no longer viable. Some critics view this as a cause for celebration. But I come to this conclusion reluctantly.

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  • Vernon W. Ruttan, 2001. "Does the US Foreign Economic Assistance Program Have a Future?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Deepak Lal & Richard H. Snape (ed.), Trade, Development and Political Economy, chapter 16, pages 285-303, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52368-5_16
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523685_16
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