The early 1960s can be regarded as the "Big Bang" for international cooperation and development policy. The US was pushing an international system to support developing countries, and in 1961, it established the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The same year saw the Organisation...

International influence -- Explaining growth -- Comparative colonialism -- Statistical regularities -- Nested inference -- Destroying Mozambique -- Constructing Korea -- Brazilian variations -- Holistic empiricism.