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Foreign Aid and American Purpose
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By Nicholas Eberstadt
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Foreign Aid and American Purpose
Dimensions: 8.75'' x 5.5''
164 pages
AEI Press  (Washington)
Publication Date: January 1989
Paperback
ISBN: 0-8447-3658-9
Hardcover
ISBN: 0-8447-3657-0

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This book examines the perversion of foreign aid, "human capital" and foreign aid in Africa, and democracy and the "debt crisis" in Latin America.

Nicholas Eberstadt is the Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at AEI.



Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction


The Perversion of Foreign Aid
Famine, Development, and Foreign Aid
"Human Capital" and Foreign Aid in Africa
More Myths about Aid to Africa
Democracy and the "Debt Crisis" in Latin America
Recommendations for Restoring Purpose to American Foreign Aid in the 1980s

Index
About the Author

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