"One-half of 1%": geopolitics, geoeconomics, and USAID -- "In the world for keeps": from the Marshall Plan to the Vietnam War -- Geoeconomics ascendant: development, interdependence, and neoliberalization -- Two decades of neoliberalization: from the Cold war to the War on Terror -- Development...

This book presents a comprehensive comparison of economic aid programs by the United States and the Soviet Union to less developed countries. It examines aid to many of the non-Communist nations of Asia, Africa, the Near East, Latin America. Robert S. Walters views aid programs in terms of their...