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The American Foreign Aid Program: Costs, Accomplishments, Alternatives?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

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Today the American Foreign aid program finds itself increasingly in trouble. The last Congress slashed $500,000,000 from the fiscal 1967 AID budget. Increasing disenchantment has been expressed by Congress in regard to the unified aid program that was inaugurated by President Kennedy in 1961 to speed economic development throughout the world as one component of “the grand design” for an American foreign policy that was to rally the free world.

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Research Article
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1967

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