From Marshall Plan to Debt Crisis: Foreign Aid and Development Choices in the World Economy Volume 15

by Robert E. Wood

Book Overview

This book traces the evolution of concessional financing to Third World countries from its postwar origins in the Marshall Plan to the debt crisis that engulfed virtually the entire Third World in the early 1980s. It documents the evolution of a system of aid provision, of structured access to concessional external financing. The central focus is on how this structure of access to aid has changed over time and shaped development options an choices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520414500
• ISBN13: 9780520414501
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"