The Price of AID: The Economic Cold War in India

Engerman, David C.

The Price of AID: The Economic Cold War in India - Cambridge Harvard University Press 2018 - 501p

Introduction: Foreign aid and development politics in India
Part I. Learning development, 1947-1955
1. Debating development and discovering India
2. Inventing development aid

Part II. The heyday of the economic cold war, 1955-1966
3. The geopolitics of economic expertise
4. The aid project and cold war competition
5. "Free money" and the tilt toward the West
6. Military supply and the vicissitudes of development politics

Part III. The bitter fruits of development politics, 1960-1974
7. Bets, bargains, and the price for American aid
8. Soviet aid from inspiration to armory
9. India's double crisis and the price of aid


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