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The OECD Development Assistance Committee's 1998 review of the US development aid policies and programmes. It finds that after a period of declining support, the United States has in recent years worked to strengthen both political and public confidence in its foreign assistance programmes. USAID's new Strategic Plan, issued in September 1997, aims at clear results through its support of developing and transitional countries' efforts to achieve sustained economic and social progress and to share more fully in resolving global problems. An ambitious effort has been made to link the reform of aid management to clearer goals and stronger partnerships. Nevertheless, the volume of resources devoted by the United States to official development assistance has continued its downward trend. Measured as a percentage of GNP, the United States now provides the lowest amount, by far, of any Member of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). At its triennial review of the United States' aid policies and programmes on 6 April 1998, the DAC welcomed the measures that have been taken and looked forward to the full impact of the reforms and initiatives that have been launched. After serious international concern over recent years about diminishing funding and staffing in the United States programme, there are welcome first indications of strengthening budgets for aid to developing countries, confirmed by President Clinton's recent commitment to seek to increase the budget for African aid to its historically high levels. It is important that the United States pursue pro-development policies on a broad range of issues. Thus, the review gives special attention to the work of USAID in the areas of democracy, participation, governance, dealing with conflict and disasters, as well as the Transition Initiative, set up to help the United States respond to the needs falling between relief and development. Trade policy is also highlighted, as are the United States' multilateral contributions, and its role in promoting gender equality.

Economic assistance, American --- Technical assistance, American --- Evaluation. --- American technical assistance --- American economic assistance --- Mutual security program, 1951 --- -Evaluation. --- United States

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"Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although they often portrayed themselves as removed from politics, their work contributed to the key geopolitical agendas of the day. The paths traveled by the experts in this volume not only traversed Latin America and connected Latin America to the Global North, they also stretch traditional chronologies of the Latin American Cold War to show how local experts in the early twentieth century laid the foundation for post-World War II development projects, and how Cold War knowledge of science, technology, and the environment continues to impact our world today. These essays unite environmental history and the history of science and technology to argue for the importance of expertise in the Latin American Cold War"--

Technical assistance --- Expertise --- Technical assistance, American --- Economic assistance, American --- Economic development --- Cold War. --- American economic assistance --- Mutual security program, 1951 --- -American technical assistance --- Specialization --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Ability --- Assistance, Technical --- Assistance, Technological --- Technological assistance --- Economic assistance --- World politics --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- History --- Environmental aspects --- Latin America --- United States --- Foreign economic relations --- -World politics --- American technical assistance

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65.012.4 --- 338 <09> --- Management. Directorate. Technique and methods of management --- Economische geschiedenis --- Management --- Technical assistance, American --- Study and teaching --- History. --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis --- 65.012.4 Management. Directorate. Technique and methods of management --- American technical assistance --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Study and teaching&delete& --- History --- Europe --- Technical assistance [American ]

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Examines the prospects for the reform of police forces overseas as a means of encouraging the development of democratic governments. This title offers an inside look at the achievements and limits of foreign assistance, outlining the nature and scope of police assistance programs and the agencies that provide it.

Police --- Technical assistance, American. --- Technical assistance --- Democratization. --- Law reform. --- Legal reform --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- American technical assistance --- Cops --- Gendarmes --- Law enforcement officers --- Officers, Law enforcement --- Officers, Police --- Police forces --- Police officers --- Police service --- Policemen --- Policing --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal justice personnel --- Peace officers --- Public safety --- Security systems --- International cooperation. --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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This books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia undertook a range of media reforms to conform with accession requirements of the European Union and the standards of the Council of Europe, among others. The essays explore the nexus between the democratic transformation of the media and international media assistance. The cross-national analysis concludes that the effects of international assistance are highly constrained by the local context. From today's vantage point it becomes obvious, that scaling media assistance does not necessarily improve outcomes. The experiences in the region suggest that imported solutions have not been very cognitive in all aspects of local conditions but international strategies tent to be rather schematic and lacked strategic approaches to promote media policy stability, credible media reform and implementation. The book offers valuable insights into the nature and effects of media assistance and the strategies deployed by international aid agencies, local political forces, media professionals, civil society organizations and other actors.

Technical assistance, European --- Technical assistance, American --- Democratization --- Mass media --- Mass media policy --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Mass media and state --- State and mass media --- Communication policy --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- American technical assistance --- Political aspects --- History. --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- 21st century, Balkan, Media, Media politics, Media regulation, Transition, Western Balkans.