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US Economic Development Policies Towards the Pacific Rim

Successes and Failures of US Aid

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Authors:
  1. Nan Wiegersma

    1. Fitchburg State College, USA

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  2. Joseph E. Medley

    1. University of Southern Maine, Portland, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Aid and Development

    • Nan Wiegersma, Joseph E. Medley
    Pages 1-15

  3. Successes and Failures: US Aid in the Postwar Era

    • Nan Wiegersma, Joseph E. Medley
    Pages 16-34

  4. Agriculture in Taiwan and South Korea

    • Nan Wiegersma, Joseph E. Medley
    Pages 35-49

  5. Industrialization in Taiwan and Korea

    • Nan Wiegersma, Joseph E. Medley
    Pages 50-70

  6. US Intervention in Vietnam

    • Nan Wiegersma, Joseph E. Medley
    Pages 71-93

  7. United States Aid to El Salvador and Nicaragua

    • Nan Wiegersma, Joseph E. Medley
    Pages 94-114

  8. Costa Rican Aid

    • Nan Wiegersma, Joseph E. Medley
    Pages 115-132

  9. Aid Policy Conclusions in an Era of Financial Crisis

    • Nan Wiegersma, Joseph E. Medley
    Pages 133-154

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 155-177
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About this book

US aid interventions have greatly advantaged some countries in their quest for development, but not others. The extensive development assistance, technology transfers and market access that the United States government granted Taiwan and South Korea in their development and the aid recently given Costa Rica were important factors in their development successes. On the other hand, the inappropriate policies of the US in Vietnam in the fifties, El Salvador in the eighties and Nicaragua in the nineties, programmed these interventions to economic as well as political failure.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Fitchburg State College, USA

    Nan Wiegersma

  • University of Southern Maine, Portland, USA

    Joseph E. Medley

About the authors

NAN WIEGERSMA is a Professor of Economics at Fitchburg State College. She has published numerous articles about land tenure, gender and development in journals and a previous book Vietnam: Peasant Land, Peasant Revolution. She was a Fullbright Fellow in Nicaragua in 1991, studying women's work in export processing zones. The research from this study was published in Women in the Age of Economic Transformation. She is co-editor of The Women Gender and Development Reader.

JOSEPH E. MEDLEY is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. He has participated in research projects in China, Mexico, Central America and southern Africa. He has published articles on US economic and political interventions, development and imperialism in journals including Rethinking Marxism, Review of Radical Political Economics and Research in Political Economy. Professor Medley is founding editor of Rethinking Marxism.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: US Economic Development Policies Towards the Pacific Rim

  • Book Subtitle: Successes and Failures of US Aid

  • Authors: Nan Wiegersma, Joseph E. Medley

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983867

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-67014-9Due: 11 July 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-333-98386-7Published: 11 July 2000

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 177

  • Topics: Development Economics, Political Science, International Economics

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