Author: Stephany Griffith-JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Alliance for Progress: an Attempt at Interpretation
Author: Stephany Griffith-JonesThe Alliance for Progress
Author: Teodoro MoscosoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technical assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Alliance for Progress
Author: The Alliance for Progress
Author: John C. DreierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alliance for progress
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
An Analysis and Appraisal of the Alliance for Progress
Author: James Upton BrooksExporting Capitalism
Author: Ethan B. KapsteinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674276272
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The first comprehensive history of America’s attempts to promote international development by exporting private enterprise, a story marked by frequent failure and occasional success. Foreign aid is a primary tool of US foreign policy, but direct financial support and ventures like the Peace Corps constitute just a sliver of the American global development pie. Since the 1940s, the United States has relied on the private sector to carry out its ambitions in the developing world. This is the first full account of what has worked and, more often, what has failed in efforts to export American-style capitalism. Ethan Kapstein draws on archival sources and his wide-ranging experience in international development to provide penetrating case studies from Latin America and East Asia to the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, and Iraq. After WWII the Truman and Eisenhower administrations urged US companies to expand across the developing world. But corporations preferred advanced countries, and many developing nations, including Taiwan and South Korea, were cool to foreign investment. The Cold War made exporting capitalism more important than ever, even if that meant overthrowing foreign governments. The fall of the Soviet Union brought new opportunities as the United States promoted privatization and the bankrolling of local oligarchs. Following the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States believed it had blank slates for building these economies, but ongoing conflict eroded such hopes. Kapstein’s sobering history shows that private enterprise is no substitute for foreign aid. Investors are often unwilling to put capital at risk in unstable countries. Only in settings with stable governments and diverse economic elites can private enterprise take root. These lessons are crucial as the United States challenges China for global influence.
Survey of the Alliance for Progress
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
International Finance and Latin America
Author: Stephany Griffith-JonesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136878092
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This reissue, initially published in 1984, examines the evolution of international financial flows to Latin America since 1945, along with their implications for National Development . The book describes how, in each of the first three decades since the war, a new agency emerged (foreign investors in the 1950s, official aid agencies in the 1960s and multinational banks in the 1970s) which was willing to play a dynamic role in generating new financial flows to the region. The lack of such an agent in the 1980s, combined with a reluctance on the part of former investors to maintain their level of assistance culminated in an economic debt crisis in Latin America which this work seeks to address, asking the crucial question: what measures should be taken – both nationally and internationally – to deal with this critical issue , in a way that will both encourage Latin American Development and avoid a major international financial crisis?
Survey of the Alliance for Progress; Labor Policies and Programs
Author: Robert H. DockeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Second Century
Author: Mark T. GilderhusPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842024143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Second Century: U.S.-Latin American Relations since 1889 focuses on U.S. relations with Latin America during the second century, a period bounded by the advent of the New Diplomacy late in the nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War about one hundred years later. This text provides a balanced perspective as it presents both the United States's view that the Western Hemisphere needed to unite under a common democratic, capitalistic society, and the Latin American countries' response to U.S. attempts to impose these goals on their southern neighbors. This book examines the reciprocal interactions between the two regions, each with distinctive purposes, outlooks, interests, and cultures. It also places U.S.-Latin American relations within the larger context of global politics and economics. The Second Century is an excellent text for courses in Latin American history and diplomatic history.