Foreign Aid, War, and Economic Development traces the economic history of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1975. During this period encompassing the Vietnam war, high-level officials paid relatively little attention to the economy of South Vietnam even though economic development was a necessary condition for the country's survival. A generous foreign aid program was designed to pay local troops and improve the standard of living of the population. Professor Dacy documents this growth in national income and the progress or lack thereof in a number of development indicators. He discusses the goals of United States economic aid and measures the net resources transferred. Additionally, the book analyzes wartime inflation and the Vietnamese tax system, and in so doing shows that the measures which would have promoted long-run viability were shunned in favor of short-run expediencies that practically doomed the country in the long run. Finally, economic development in South Vietnam is compared to that in Israel, South Korea, and Taiwan, three nations that faced high military threats during the same period.
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Traces the economic history of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1975. Documents the growth in national income and the progress, or lack thereof, in a number of development indicators. Discusses the goals of United States economic aid and measures the net resources transferred.
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The State of Vietnam became an independent nation when conferees at Geneva in July 1954 partitioned the former French colony of Indochina. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Vietnam, United States, South Korea, Viet Cong, Republic of Vietnam, National Bank of Vietnam, United Nations, Latin American, Commercial Import Program, Terminal Report, International Monetary Fund, Viet Minh, World War, House of Representatives, North Vietnamese, Bernard Fall, Communist Tet, Ngo Dinh Diem, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, South American, State Department, Third World, Year Figure, Communist Easter New!
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The State of Vietnam became an independent nation when conferees at Geneva in July 1954 partitioned the former French colony of Indochina. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Vietnam, United States, South Korea, Viet Cong, Republic of Vietnam, National Bank of Vietnam, United Nations, Latin American, Commercial Import Program, Terminal Report, International Monetary Fund, Viet Minh, World War, House of Representatives, North Vietnamese, Bernard Fall, Communist Tet, Ngo Dinh Diem, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, South American, State Department, Third World, Year Figure, Communist Easter New!
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- Leading Issues in Economic Development by Gerald M. Meier in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Decent Interval by Frank Snepp on page 205, and Back Matter
- Structural Change and Development Policy by Hollis Chenery in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money by Phillip Cagan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- South Vietnam: Nation under Stress by Robert G. Scigliano in Back Matter
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- Military Justice in Vietnam: The Rule of Law in an American War (Modern War Studies) by William Thomas Allison in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Vietnam: Past And Present, Third Edition by D. R. SarDesai in Back Matter
- Communist Agriculture: Farming in the Far East and Cuba by Karl-Eugen Wädekin in Back Matter
- The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 2, Part 2, From World War II to the Present by Nicholas Tarling on page 151
- Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War: The State, Military Power and Social Revolution (Cass Series--Cold War History,) by Richard Saull in Back Matter
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