Foreign Aid and Social Reform in Political Development: A Philippine Case Study

1959 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 456-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wurfel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
States Government ◽  
Aid Policy

Writers on foreign aid policy today generally agree that technical and capital assistance from the United States government can contribute effectively to economic growth in underdeveloped areas. There is much less agreement among them, however, on the ability of the foreign aid program to contribute positively to democratic processes of political and social change. There is still less agreement on the proposal that the United States should, wherever necessary and possible, intentionally attempt to stimulate social change within the context of an aid program. Nevertheless, some general considerations not heretofore presented in juxtaposition, and a case history to illustrate them, tend to support this proposal.

Establishment of the International Finance Corporation: A Case Study

1956 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. E. Matecki
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Development ◽  
International Finance ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Organization ◽  
United States Government ◽  
International Finance Corporation ◽  
States Government

This article presents briefly the findings of a case study in which two questions are investigated:a) Did the idea of an International Finance Corporation, first publicly expounded by the United States International Development Advisory Board, have its source in a United States agency or in an international organization?b) What were the causes of the modification of policy announced by the United States government on November II, 1954, when it decided to support the establishment of the International Finance Corporation, and did international organizations have any part in bringing about this change of policy?

Agricultural Disposals as Foreign Aid: An Appraisal

1961 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. W. Hultman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
Dual Purpose ◽  
Underdeveloped Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
States Government

The United States Government, over the past several years, has endeavored to utilize its abundance of agricultural commodities for the promotion of economic development in certain foreign locales. The disposal of surplus food and fiber products purportedly serves the dual purpose of alleviation of domestic over-production and assistance to underdeveloped countries engaged in a struggle for economic advancement. The two programs which attempt an integration of surplus disposal with foreign economic assistance are Section 402 of the Mutual Security Act and the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act (PL 480).

“Foreign Aid” to Brazil from Private U.S. Sources

1963 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-265
Author(s):  
Erwina E. Godfrey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
States Government

At every recent session of the United States Congress foreign aid has been debated, criticized, and eventually enacted into law. Unfortunately, results of the foreign aid program have been less miraculous than its proponents anticipated. Instead of free, happy and productive allies, we find that discontented, disappointed and even resentful nations are recipients of U. S. “foreign aid.”The frustrations and failures inherent in a governmental foreign aid program were publicized by the best-selling polemic, The Ugly American. The authors insisted that much of the trouble with foreign aid was to be found in the naïvete of its originators, the ignorance and incompetence of its administrators, and the general insensitivity of Americans toward peoples of other lands. The indictment provoked angry denials from advocates of foreign aid, and managed to obscure the positive achievements of two decades of assistance by the United States government to many countries where ignorance, poverty and disease were considered to be ineradicable.

scholarly journals Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in United States Government Courses

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (01) ◽  
pp. 127-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Champney ◽  
Paul Edleman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Science Majors ◽  
Student Knowledge ◽  
States Government ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Males And Females

AbstractThis study employs the Solomon Four-Group Design to measure student knowledge of the United States government and student knowledge of current events at the beginning of a U.S. government course and at the end. In both areas, knowledge improves significantly. Regarding knowledge of the U.S. government, both males and females improve at similar rates, those with higher and lower GPAs improve at similar rates, and political science majors improve at similar rates to non-majors. Regarding current events, males and females improve at similar rates. However, those with higher GPAs and political science majors improve more than others.

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