The Price of Aid

The Price of Aid
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780674986060
ISBN-13 : 0674986067
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Book Synopsis The Price of Aid by : David C. Engerman

Download or read book The Price of Aid written by David C. Engerman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of US and Soviet aid efforts in India during the Cold War “makes a major contribution towards a necessary discussion of the politics of aid” (Times Higher Education). Debates over foreign aid are often strangely ahistorical. Economists argue about how to make aid work while critics bemoan money wasted on corruption, ignoring the fundamentally political character of aid. The Price of Aid turns the standard debate on its head. By exposing the geopolitical calculus underpinning development assistance, it also exposes its costs. India stood at the center of American and Soviet aid competition throughout the Cold War, as both superpowers saw developmental aid as a way of pursuing their geopolitical goals by economic means. Drawing on recently declassified files from seven countries, David Engerman shows how Indian leaders used Cold War competition to win battles at home, eroding the Indian state in the process. As China spends freely in Africa, the political stakes of foreign aid are rising once again. “A superb, field-changing book . . . A true classic.” —Sunil Amrith


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