Aid as Obstacle: Twenty Questions about Our Foreign Aid and the Hungry.

Autor/inn/en	Lappe, Frances Moore; und weitere
Institution	Institute for Food and Development Policy, San Francisco, CA.
Titel	Aid as Obstacle: Twenty Questions about Our Foreign Aid and the Hungry.
Quelle	(1981), (199 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Fotografien; Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-935028-07-2
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Developing Nations; Financial Support; Foreign Policy; Hunger; International Programs; Poverty; Power Structure; World Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Finanzielle Förderung; Außenpolitik; Armut; Weltproblem
Abstract	Reasons why U.S. foreign aid fails to alleviate hunger and poverty are discussed and a solution to the problem is presented. The United States now channels more foreign aid than ever to the world's poor and hungry through the Agency for International Development, food aid programs, the World Bank, and other multilateral aid agencies, which report that U.S. development assistance programs are meeting the basic needs of the poor people in the developing countries with "appropriate technology" and by "raising small farm productivity." However, research shows that the cause of hunger and rural poverty is not scarcity of agricultural resources or lack of modern technology, but rather the increasing concentration of control over food-producing resources in the hands of a few people. U.S. foreign assistance fails because it is based on the fundamental fallacy that aid can reach the powerless even though channeled through the powerful. The bulk of U.S. aid flows not to the countries with the greatest poverty but to those with some of the world's most repressive regimes. If U.S. programs are to be effective, they must bring the poor into development and halt all economic and military support for elitist governments. (RM)
Anmerkungen	Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1885 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 ($4.95, quantity discounts available).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01