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...Republic, The Nation, and Washington Monthly began to appear in the HPR, in exchange for free space in those publications for HPR ads. The number of subscriptions rose from only 20 under the old format to over 200 by February 1976. The staff sent out the large donor packets and waited...
...people on the Harvard Political Review's large donor list, only 24 expressed any further interest after receiving the packet. Of these, three eventually contributed to the Review, for a total of $52,000. As Saylor later wrote in his report on this failure, "Our rate of return was only 5 per cent on a list that cannot possibly be matched for selectivity," and those returns "appear likely to be one-time contributions rather than a continuing commitment...
Hanoi has followed a flexible foreign policy toward other countries, trying at once to promote its revolutionary credentials and get aid and even investment from industrialized nations. The Soviet Union is the Vietnamese Communists' best friend and the largest aid donor ($500 million in 1975); Chinese aid is estimated at about 40% of that...
...high consumption patterns. But poor nations have to accept that fact if they want to stimulate economic growth. Moreover, if the benefits of growth do not reach all segments of a developing country's population, the fault usually lies more with the aid recipient than with the donor. Hyperinflated bureaucracies and corrupt officials in a poor state, for instance, claim a large share of their nation's output, while widespread illiteracy limits access to new jobs stimulated by the economic development. While foreign investors may bring capital-intensive, labor-saving equipment into a country where there is massive...
This is a romantical populist argument, reflecting a widespread and partly justifiable resentment against the corrosive impact of modernization on traditional values. It is a complaint, however, more properly leveled at the concepts of technology and progress rather than at the First World. After all, no aid donor forces a poor country to opt for economic growth. South Korea's Deputy Premier Nam Duck Woo recently noted what ought to be obvious to all underdeveloped countries: "As people get richer, their values become more materialistic...