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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
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100			_aEngerman,David C
245			_aPRICE OF AID : Economic Cold War in India
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260			_aLondon _bHarvard Business Press _c2018/01/01
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500			_aSummary: Debates over foreign aid can seem strangely innocent of history. Economists argue about effectiveness and measurement--how to make aid work. Meanwhile, critics in donor countries bemoan what they see as money wasted on corrupt tycoons or unworthy recipients. What most ignore is the essentially political character of foreign aid. Looking back to the origins and evolution of foreign aid during the Cold War, David C. Engerman invites us to recognize the strategic thinking at the heart of development assistance--as well as the political costs. In The Price of Aid, Engerman argues that superpowers turned to foreign aid as a tool of the Cold War. India, the largest of the ex-colonies, stood at the center of American and Soviet aid competition. Officials of both superpowers saw development aid as an instrument for pursuing geopolitics through economic means. But Indian officials had different ideas, seeking superpower aid to advance their own economic visions, thus bringing external resources into domestic debates about India's economic future. Drawing on an expansive set of documents, many recently declassified, from seven countries, Engerman reconstructs a story of Indian leaders using Cold War competition to win battles at home, but in the process eroding the Indian state. The Indian case provides an instructive model today. As China spends freely in Africa, the political stakes of foreign aid are rising once again.
505			_aContents Introduction: Foreign aid and development politics in India -- Part I. Learning development, 1947-1955: Debating development and discovering India -- Inventing development aid -- Part II. The heyday of the economic cold war, 1955-1966: The geopolitics of economic expertise -- The aid project and cold war competition -- "Free money" and the tilt toward the West -- Military supply and the vicissitudes of development politics -- Part III. The bitter fruits of development politics, 1960-1974: Bets, bargains, and the price for American aid -- Soviet aid from inspiration to armory -- India's double crisis and the price of aid -- Conclusion: Development politics and the price of aid
650			_aEconomics
650			_aEconomic history
650			_aCold War (1945-1989)
650			_aGeopolitics
650			_aEconomic assistance -- Political aspects -- India -- History -- 20th century.
650			_aEconomic assistance, American -- Political aspects -- India -- History -- 20th century.
650			_aEconomic assistance, Soviet -- Political aspects -- India -- History -- 20th century.
650			_aHistory
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