American Food Aid and Its Impact on the Egyptian Economy
Author | : Mohamed Samir Moustapha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1982* |
Genre | : Economic assistance, American |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mohamed Samir Moustapha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1982* |
Genre | : Economic assistance, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barry Riley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0190228873 |
American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing humanitarian aid to millions of hungry people confronted by war, terrorism and natural cataclysms and the resulting threat-often the reality-of famine and death. The book investigates the little-known, not-well-understood and often highly-contentious political processes which have converted American agricultural production into tools of U.S. government policy. In The Political History of American Food Aid, Barry Riley explores the influences of humanitarian, domestic agricultural policy, foreign policy, and national security goals that have created the uneasy relationship between benevolent instincts and the realpolitik of national interests. He traces how food aid has been used from the earliest days of the republic in widely differing circumstances: as a response to hunger, a weapon to confront the expansion of bolshevism after World War I and communism after World War II, a method for balancing disputes between Israel and Egypt, a channel for disposing of food surpluses, a signal of support to friendly governments, and a means for securing the votes of farming constituents or the political support of agriculture sector lobbyists, commodity traders, transporters and shippers. Riley's broad sweep provides a profound understanding of the complex factors influencing American food aid policy and a foundation for examining its historical relationship with relief, economic development, food security and its possible future in a world confronting the effects of global climate change.
Author | : Mohammed Mahmoud Abo-el-Enein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Economic assistance, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marvin G. Weinbaum |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2019-03-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429711832 |
The massive U.S. economic aid program for Egypt initiated in 1975 resulted in a bilateral aid relationship shaped by the interaction of political and development goals. In this study of the program's origins and consequences, Professor Weinbaum describes its scope and identifies the constraints that delayed and limited program implementation. The author discusses the modest U.S. leverage designed to encourage economic reforms and argues that far-reaching reforms could only be attained through a major change in Egypt's political structure. He finds that, despite its failure to make Egypt more economically self-reliant, U.S. assistance has enabled the country to attain a level of consumption and development planning possible with no other alternative. The profit to the United States results from the regime's moderate foreign policies and compatible views on strategic threats to the region. Despite the mutual benefits of this aid program, Professor Weinbaum concludes that the United States must display greater sensitivity to Egypt's political and economic problems if the "special relationship" is to survive through the 1980s.
Author | : William J. Burns |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1985-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0791498069 |
Gamal Abdel Nasser's 1955 decision to barter Egyptian cotton for Soviet bloc weaponry thrust Egypt onto center stage in the Cold War in the Middle East. What Egypt needed most, and what the United States was uniquely equipped to provide, was economic aid. For the Egyptian government--eager to take rapid strides toward economic development but crippled by a burgeoning population, a paucity of arable land, and a meager reserve of foreign exchange--American economic aid promised to serve as an enormously important crutch. For American policymakers, economic assistance appeared to be an ideal means of developing American influence in Egypt. Few aid relationships in the last three decades can match the drama and significance of the U.S.-Egyptian experience. This study shows how the American government attempted to use its economic aid program to induce or coerce Egypt to support U.S. interests in the Middle East in the quarter century following the 1955 Czech-Egyptian arms agreement. William J. Burns has analyzed recently released government documents and interviews with former policymakers to throw light on the use of aid as a tool of American policy toward the Nasser regime. He also offers valuable observations on the role of the American economic assistance program in the Sadat era.
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Agricultural assistance, American |
ISBN | : |
Agriculture has traditionally been a mainstay of the Egyptian economy. In 1975, the Agency for International Development (AID) undertook a high-level development effort aimed at helping the government of Egypt increase agricultural production. The high level of U.S. assistance to Egypt is based on the belief that President Sadat's peace initiatives are crucial and that his effort will be supported and enhanced by a strong and growing economy that is able to meet the Egyptian people's basic needs and expectations for a better life. To assess the progress of the Egyptian agricultural assistance program and identify how program impact could be improved, GAO undertook a review of the assistance that the United States has provided to Egyptian agriculture since 1975. Although AID has committed more than $357 million to projects aimed at increasing food and agricultural production in Egypt, only $61.8 million of these funds has been spent, and the impact of the projects on Egyptian agriculture has been negligible. Problems in project implementation which have caused slow progress include: contracting delays; insufficient Egyptian support; inadequate AID monitoring; and the lack of staff and expertise of some U.S. contractors, including universities. Even with speedy project implementation, the program's impact will be limited unless policy changes, which provide an environment for agricultural development, are undertaken and unless more attention is given to developing an extension service capable of delivering the technology now being developed.
Author | : Rachel Garst |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780803260955 |
Examines United States food aid to Central America, and makes detailed recommendations for changes in its administration
Author | : Ann Harrison |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0226318001 |
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Author | : U S Government Accountability Office (G |
Publisher | : BiblioGov |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2013-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781289224110 |
U.S. assistance to Egypt has become a political symbol of evenhanded support among the Middle East adversaries. The economic impact of U.S. assistance depends on Egypt's development of economic reforms. The U.S. programs provide long term benefits through development projects. Short term balance-of-payment relief is provided through the Commodity Import Program and food aid. The most serious impediment to Egypt's development is its difficulty in mobilizing domestic resources. Egypt's accelerated development program will require it to stretch financial, material, and organizational resources to the limit. This could have a destabilizing effect if development is not accompanied by sound budgetary management.
Author | : Galal A. Amin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136916601 |
First Published in 1966. The purpose of this book for two-fold. First, to investigate the role played by food supply in economic development, and secondly. to examine the food problem in the United Arab Republic (Egypt).