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PubMed1978

Foreign aid support of science and economic growth.

The history of U.S. foreign aid support of science and technology in Latin America is examined and an attempt is made to evaluate the scientific and economic growth of that area in relation to the total foreign aid effort.

Chemistry↗
PubMed1983

Foreign aid and its role in maintaining the exploitation of the agricultural sector: evidence from a case study in Africa.

Today most foreign aid donors are genuinely committed to the idea that development in Third World countries should start with rural development. Therefore, a sizable proportion of their development funds are invested in rural projects. However, donors channel these funds through local governments (most often representing local bourgeois interests) that are not as committed to the principle of rural development. These governments are often also embarked in policies that are actually--directly or indirectly--expropriating the surpluses generated by agriculture and investing them in the other sectors of the economy. The peasants are therefore footing most of the bill of overall national development. This paper contends that, because of this state of affairs, foreign aid directed toward rural development is actually filling the investment gap left by an internal system of unequal returns to production in agriculture. In so doing, foreign aid is indirectly financing the development of the other sectors of the economy, even if this result is unintended. This perpetrates maldevelopment without redressing the basic exploitation process of peasants which lies at the core of underdevelopment. Evidence to support this hypothesis is presented using data from a primarily agricultural exporting country: the United Republic of Cameroon.

Agriculture↗
PubMed1999

Foreign aid, international organizations, and the world's children.

Recent improvement in child mortality has taken place in all regions of the world. In developing countries, major remaining causes are neonatal problems, diarrheal diseases, vaccine-preventable diseases, and respiratory diseases. Foreign aid has come in many forms, among them individual persons, nongovernmental organizations, national governments, and international agencies. Governmental involvement in health activities abroad can advance foreign policy interests as well as help protect a country's citizens against existing and potential disease foci. Intergovernmental health agencies, regional and worldwide, have been in existence only in this century; the World Health Organization is barely 50 years old and suffers from US delinquency in paying its dues. Child labor has health aspects in industrialized as well as in developing countries. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has significant implications for health. Despite broad support, including that of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the United States has not ratified the convention, the only nation in the world beside Somalia not to do so.

Child↗
PubMed1996

Competing for foreign aid for health development.

Health ministries in low-income countries faced with the problem of decreasing financial support from traditional external sources are taking steps to become more competitive in the "market" for foreign aid. This article describes some strategies that have enabled ministries to obtain external financing for their health development priorities, thereby improving the quality and increasing the quantity of aid they receive.

Developing Countries↗
PubMed1976

Physician migration to the U.S.--foreign aid for U.S. manpower.

Data were obtained from the American Medical Association on Iranian physicians practicing in the U.S., and from the Iranian Medical Registry on U.S.-trained Iranian physicians who have returned to practice in Iran. There were 2,066 Iranian physicians practicing in the U.S. in 1972, 1,234 (60%) of whom were not undergoing any training. Only 600 of Iran's 9,535 physicians in 1972 had been trained in the United States. Thus, less than one-third of the specialists who have completed training in the U.S. have returned to practice in Iran. The specialist group with the highest rate of return is the combined surgery subspecialties (neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, orthopedic surgery, and plastic surgery). The specialist groups with the lowest rates of return were pathology, anesthesiology, and psychiatry. A comparison is made of the manpower problems Iran faces and the American problems in the area of physician manpower.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

Nutrition, development, and foreign aid: a case study of U.S.-directed health care in Colombian plantation zone.

Based on a case study of some aspects of Rockefeller and USAID intervention in the Cauca Valley, Colombia, this article is aimed at drawing attention to the political characteristics and inadequacies of U.S.-sponsored health care planning and research in the Third World, particularly as regards nutrition in rural regions of intensive economic development. By contrasting an historical analysis of the politicoeconomic development of agriculture and nutrition in the southern Cauca Valley with the assumptions guiding U.S. intervention in the health field there, a more complete picture of the causes of malnutrition is obtained, among which should be counted the intervention of the U.S. itself. Inter alia, other approaches to the malnutrition problem are suggested.

Agriculture↗