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absorptive capacity achieve administration aid channels allocation of aid amount of aid balance of payments bottlenecks cold war Communist contribution coun country's create criteria democratic deterrence developed countries development aid development assistance program development program dollar of aid domestic economic aid programs economic assistance program economic development economic growth effective Eurasia Europe European evaluation force foreign aid Foreign Aid Program foreign policy forms of aid free world funds gram important increase in income international organization Korean war limited loans long-run Marshall plan measure military aid military assistance mobilized national effort NATO nomic objectives percent planning and budgeting political possible private investment problems purposes rate of growth rate of savings recipient countries requires SEATO self-sustaining growth social society Soviet bloc Soviet Union special committee specific straight bilateral strategy Study the Foreign success technical assistance THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN tion underdeveloped areas underdeveloped countries United Nations
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Page 11 - We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas.
Page 12 - This should be a cooperative enterprise in which all nations work together through the United Nations and its specialized agencies whenever practicable. It must be a world-wide effort for the achievement of peace, plenty, and freedom.
Page 11 - I believe that we should make available to peace-loving peoples the benefits of our store of technical knowledge in order to help them realize their aspirations for a better life. And, in cooperation with other nations, we should foster capital investment in areas needing development. Our aim should be to help the free peoples of the world, through their own efforts, to produce more food, more clothing, more materials for housing, and more mechanical power to lighten their burdens.
Page 4 - Being determined that immediately upon the liberation of any area by the armed forces of the United Nations or as a consequence of retreat of the enemy the population thereof shall receive aid and relief from their sufferings, food, clothing and shelter, aid in the prevention of pestilence and in the recovery of the health of the people, and that preparation and arrangements shall be made for the return of prisoners and exiles to their homes and for assistance in the resumption of urgently needed...
Page 12 - Such new economic developments must be devised and controlled to benefit the peoples of the areas in which they are established. Guaranties to the investor must be balanced by guaranties in the interest of the people whose resources and whose labor go into these developments. The old imperialism — exploitation for foreign profit — has no place in our plans. What we envisage is a program of development based on the concepts of democratic fair-dealing.
Page 12 - All countries, including our own, will greatly benefit from a constructive program for the better use of the world's human and natural resources. Experience shows that our commerce with other countries expands as they progress industrially and economically.
Page 11 - More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery. Their food is inadequate. They are victims of disease. Their economic life is primitive and stagnant. Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous areas. For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and the skill to relieve the suffering of these people.
Page iv - The need and willingness of foreign countries to receive aid, and their capacity to make effective use thereof. (d) The various kinds of foreign aid and alternatives thereto as well as the methods by which and conditions on which aid might be furnished. (e) The related actions which should be taken to make foreign aid effective in achieving national objectives. In the conduct of its study the committee was instructed to make — full use * * * of the experience, knowledge, and advice of private organizations,...
Page 57 - Ideally, aid should be allocated where it will have the maximum catalytic effect of mobilizing additional national effort or preventing a fall in national effort. The primary criterion is thus to maximize additional effort, not to maximize income created per dollar of aid. If this last were the aim, dollars invested in developed countries might easily show better results. Nor would a criterion of maximum increase in income suffice even if only underdeveloped countries were considered.
Page v - The Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change of the University of Chicago.