Research Catalog

Title

The economics of foreign aid / Raymond F. Mikesell.

Author

Mikesell, Raymond Frech.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : AldineTransaction, [2007].

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Details

Description

300 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Economic assistance
• Economic assistance, American

Note

• Originally published: Chicago : Aldine Pub. Co., c1968.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-295) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Objectives of Foreign Economic Assistance -- National Objectives of Foreign Economic Assistance from the Standpoint of the Donors -- The Relationship of the Economic Objectives of Aid to National Political and Security Objectives -- National Development Objectives and Policies of Aid Recipients -- The Foundations of Modern Aid Theories and Strategies: A Review of Development Theories -- Pre-World War II Growth Models -- Modern Economic Growth Models and Theories -- Historical Stage Theories -- Sociological and Cultural Approaches -- Some Development Theories and Strategies -- Relevance for Foreign Aid Models -- The Macroeconomics of Aid: Foreign Aid Theories -- Three Basic Approaches to Foreign Aid Requirements -- Some Estimates of Aggregate Aid Requirements for Developing Countries -- Comprehensive Foreign Aid Theories -- A Critique of the Savings and Trade Constraint Models -- Some Projections of Growth Patterns and Aid Requirements -- Capital-Absorptive Capacity -- The Macroeconomics of Aid: Debt Service and Loan Terms -- Capital Inflow and Debt Service Models -- Debt-Servicing Capacity -- Debt-Servicing Capacity and Loan Terms -- The Microeconomics of Aid: Foreign Aid Strategies -- Economic Problems in Foreign Assistance Designed for Financing Specific Activities -- Economic Criteria for Project Assistance -- Project Assistance in the Principal Economic Sectors: Some Major Issues -- Foreign Assistance as a Means of Influencing Development Policies of Recipients -- The Role of Quantitative Growth Models -- Foreign Aid and Economic Performance -- Economic Issues Relating to the Major Forms of Aid for Development -- The Issue of Project vs. Program Assistance -- Development Aid in the Form of Agricultural Commodities -- Foreign Aid by Any Other Name -- Aid through Trade -- Government Guarantees of Loans and Direct Investments -- Compensatory Arrangements -- Foreign Aid Donors and the Burden of Aid -- Capital Exports and National Economic Advantage -- Measuring the Real Burden of Aid -- International Burden Sharing -- Aid Tying as a Means of Reducing the Aid Burden -- Multilateral vs. Bilateral Aid -- Conclusions for Aid Policy -- The Contribution of Aid to Development -- The Forms and Conditions of Aid: The Choice of Aid Strategies -- The Role of Trade in Development Assistance -- The Terms of Aid -- The Allocation of Aid -- The Coordination of Aid -- How Much Aid and How Should the Aid Burden Be Shared?.

ISBN

• 9780202309682 (alk. paper)
• 0202309681 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006048005

OCLC

• 76898000
• SCSB-12474113

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library