Reluctant Aid Or Aiding The Reluctant

Author : Steven Varnis
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1412833035

Get Book

Reluctant Aid Or Aiding the Reluctant? by Steven Varnis Pdf

"Makes a persuasive case that the Marxist government of Ethiopia induced famine and was reluctant to obtain or use this benevolent aid to provide effective relief until its contribution to the achievement of revolutionary goals could be assured. . . . Varnis skillfully documents the intricacies of PVO (private voluntary organization) actions to merge government donor and recipient policies. In so doing, he successfully refutes Third World dependency theory doctrines but paints a gloomy picture of continuing food deficits in Ethiopia's future." --T. M. Vestal, Choice "A welcome contribution. He provides a detailed, clear-headed, and accurate analysis of U.S. famine relief to Ethiopia in 1983-86, when good aid was used by the Marxist-Leninist regime for political, military, and ideological ends. Asks all the rights questions and provides most of the right answers." --Michael Radu, Orbis This book undertakes a systematic analysis of responsibilities for the 1983-86 Ethiopian famine and its relief, drawing upon a wide range of materials and personal observation in Ethiopia itself. The policy sources of the famine are described in detail, assessing regional variations in Ethiopian food policy and the inducement of famine.

Author : Steven Varnis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Famines
ISBN : 088738336X

Get Book

Reluctant Aid Or Aiding the Reluctant? by Steven Varnis Pdf

Author : Barry Riley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190228873

Get Book

The Political History of American Food Aid by Barry Riley Pdf

American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing humanitarian aid to millions of hungry people confronted by war, terrorism and natural cataclysms and the resulting threat-often the reality-of famine and death. The book investigates the little-known, not-well-understood and often highly-contentious political processes which have converted American agricultural production into tools of U.S. government policy. In The Political History of American Food Aid, Barry Riley explores the influences of humanitarian, domestic agricultural policy, foreign policy, and national security goals that have created the uneasy relationship between benevolent instincts and the realpolitik of national interests. He traces how food aid has been used from the earliest days of the republic in widely differing circumstances: as a response to hunger, a weapon to confront the expansion of bolshevism after World War I and communism after World War II, a method for balancing disputes between Israel and Egypt, a channel for disposing of food surpluses, a signal of support to friendly governments, and a means for securing the votes of farming constituents or the political support of agriculture sector lobbyists, commodity traders, transporters and shippers. Riley's broad sweep provides a profound understanding of the complex factors influencing American food aid policy and a foundation for examining its historical relationship with relief, economic development, food security and its possible future in a world confronting the effects of global climate change.

Author : Amanda Kay McVety
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199796939

Get Book

Enlightened Aid by Amanda Kay McVety Pdf

Enlightened Aid is a unique history of foreign aid. The book begins with the modern concept of progress in the Scottish Enlightenment, follows the development of this concept in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century economics and anthropology, describes its transformation from a concept into a tool of foreign policy, and ends with the current debate about foreign aid's utility. In his 1949 inaugural address, Harry Truman vowed to make the development of the underdeveloped world a central part of the U.S. government's national security agenda. This commitment became policy the following year with the creation of Point Four--America's first aid program to the developing world. Point Four technicians shared technology, know-how, and capital with people in nations around the world. They taught classes on public health and irrigation, distributed chickens and vaccines, and helped build schools and water treatment facilities. They did all of this in the name of development, believing that economic progress would lead to social and political progress, which, in turn, would ensure that Point Four recipient nations would become prosperous democratic participants in the global community of nations. Point Four was a weapon in the fight against poverty, but it was also a weapon in the fight against the Soviet Union. Eisenhower reluctantly embraced it and Kennedy made it a central part of his international policy agenda, turning Truman's program into the United States Agency for International Development. Point Four had proven itself to be a useful tool of diplomacy, and subsequent administrations claimed it for themselves. None seemed overly worried that it had not also proven itself to be a particularly useful tool of development. Using Ethiopia as a case study, Enlightened Aid examines the struggle between foreign aid-for-diplomacy and foreign aid-for-development. Point Four's creators believed that aid could be both at the same time. The history of U.S. aid to Ethiopia suggests otherwise.

Author : G. Kent
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230375536

Get Book

Children in the International Political Economy by G. Kent Pdf

The first line of responsibility for children lies with their parents, but what if the parents fail to look after their children? Who else is involved, and what should they do? Children in the International Political Economy examines the moral responsibilities of different individuals and agencies towards children and argues that some responsibilities should be codified as concrete legal duties. If all else fails, children must look to the international community for help. Thus international agencies should recognize specific obligations to look after the well-being of children around the world.

Author : Benjamin Talton
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296334

Get Book

In This Land of Plenty by Benjamin Talton Pdf

On August 7, 1989, Congressman Mickey Leland departed on a flight from Addis Ababa, with his thirteen-member delegation of Ethiopian and American relief workers and policy analysts, bound for Ethiopia's border with Sudan. This was Leland's seventh official humanitarian mission in his nearly decade-long drive to transform U.S. policies toward Africa to conform to his black internationalist vision of global cooperation, antiracism, and freedom from hunger. Leland's flight never arrived at its destination. The plane crashed, with no survivors. When Leland embarked on that delegation, he was a forty-four-year-old, deeply charismatic, fiercely compassionate, black, radical American. He was also an elected Democratic representative of Houston's largely African American and Latino Eighteenth Congressional District. Above all, he was a self-proclaimed "citizen of humanity." Throughout the 1980s, Leland and a small group of former radical-activist African American colleagues inside and outside Congress exerted outsized influence to elevate Africa's significance in American foreign affairs and to move the United States from its Cold War orientation toward a foreign policy devoted to humanitarianism, antiracism, and moral leadership. Their internationalism defined a new era of black political engagement with Africa. In This Land of Plenty presents Leland as the embodiment of larger currents in African American politics at the end of the twentieth century. But a sober look at his aspirations shows the successes and shortcomings of domestic radicalism and aspirations of politically neutral humanitarianism during the 1980s, and the extent to which the decade was a major turning point in U.S. relations with the African continent. Exploring the links between political activism, electoral politics, and international affairs, Benjamin Talton not only details Leland's political career but also examines African Americans' successes and failures in influencing U.S. foreign policy toward African and other Global South countries.

Author : Donna Maurer,Jeffery Sobal
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 020236576X

Get Book

Eating Agendas by Donna Maurer,Jeffery Sobal Pdf

The international group of sociological and nutritional scientists in this volume represent the research that has been conducted on the social problematics of food and nutrition in such areas as food safety, biotechnology, food stamp programs, obesity, anorexia nervosa, and vegetarianism. The broad range of topics addressed and the case studies examined make this book suitable as a course-related text both in foodways and cultural aspects of nutrition and as a new departure in social problems courses.

Author : Paulos Milkias,Getachew Metaferia
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875864143

Get Book

The Battle of Adwa by Paulos Milkias,Getachew Metaferia Pdf

Ethiopia trounced the Italians in 1896 in the greatest African victory over Europe since Hannibal, but failed to prevent the loss of Eritrea. The event was a powerful constitutive force in the rise of modern Africa and pan-Africanism and resounds in the shared memory of Africans and Black Americans even today.

Author : Penelope Campbell
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412846387

Get Book

Africare by Penelope Campbell Pdf

Africare is a US-based non-profit organization specializing in development aid for Africa. It is also the oldest and largest African-American led organization in the development field. Since its founding in 1970, Africare has delivered more than $710 million in assistance through over 2,500 projects to thirty-six African countries. The organization employs over 1,000 people, largely indigenous to the countries affected. This is a study in leadership and competing African and American black interests. Africare has sought to become the leading voice speaking on Africa within the US, a goal more difficult to attain than becoming the premier NGO in Africa. Sources of opinion and channels of expression about American policy in Africa are fragmented. They do not have name recognition or influential sponsors. There is poor coverage of African affairs in the US, except for key, often tragic, events. Africare has a heritage and has filled a niche in American society. Penelope Campbell argues that unless the organization reclaims these unique assets, it may lose the distinctiveness enabling its survival. The challenge for Africare is spreading its story and message. The author raises disturbing fundamental issues. Has foreign aid become such an industry that the patient is not allowed to get well? As the military cannot afford peace, it seems the world cannot afford the cessation of poverty. Campbell argues that success in Africa has been elusive not because of the failures of development organizations, but the magnitude of the issues involved. The author presents a convincing case for aid to Africa, the pitfalls involved, and for Africare’s potential as a leader in meeting the continent’s needs.

Author : Ray C. Rist
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412836484

Get Book

The Democratic Imagination by Ray C. Rist Pdf

On the occasion of the sixty-fifth birthday of I. L. Horowitz, a group of his mentors, colleagues, and students have come together to examine his work, and also engage in his writings. The work is divided into the major areas of Horowitz's efforts: Theory of Social Practice, The Sociology of Politics, Social Research and Professional Ethics, Nation-Building and Development, Cuba, the Caribbean and Communism; Religion, Culture and the Jewish Enigma, and a final segment on Publishing and the Craft of Writing. For more information, click here to go to the International Evaluation Research Group web site.

Author : Wm. Alex McIntosh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781489913852

Get Book

Sociologies of Food and Nutrition by Wm. Alex McIntosh Pdf

Here, Wm. Alex McIntosh analyzes the relationship between food and nutrition and social factors, using a wide array of sociological theories. The author applies theories of social organization, culture, social stratification, social change, rural sociology, the sociology of the body, and social problems to empirical problems in food and nutrition. By doing so, he sheds light on issues such as the rise of the state; population growth; famine; obesity; eating disorders; the maldistribution of food across class, gender, and ethnic boundaries; and the changing nature of the food industry.

Author : WorldViews (Organization)
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020158379

Get Book

Africa by WorldViews (Organization) Pdf

This indispensable tool provides a breadth and depth of resources for anyone interested in understanding the changing and complex reality that is Africa today. To many outside the continent, Africa appears to be remote and inaccessible. But this doesn't have to be so. The print and audiovisual resources gathered together in this directory demonstrate that there are many ways to access this huge and diverse continent.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2262 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373799

Get Book

The Cumulative Book Index by Anonim Pdf

A world list of books in the English language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Endowments
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006681121

Get Book

Foundation News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1834 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112002044748

Get Book

World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts by Anonim Pdf