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...that embrace two-thirds of mankind. The results have been mixed, but there have been enough signs of success to merit strong support for the experiment. Yet after a year-long study sponsored by the World Bank, an eight-member commission headed by former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson warned in Washington last week that foreign aid is at "a point of crisis...
...both the have and have-not camps, says the Pearson report, the aid climate is "heavy with disillusion and distrust," partly because "instant development" has proved illusory, partly because economic improvement has not always been "an antidote to violence," partly because the wealthier countries are turning to problems of their...
Ransom Notes. So far, the money has been moving on what the Pearson report calls a somewhat sloppy "trial and error" basis. The have-nots have made an art of what aid experts call the "ransom note" approach (hinting that they will warm up to Moscow, say, if the U.S. starts getting stingy). The haves play "puppetry" with the strings they attach to aid deals (the U.S., for example requires aid recipients to oppose the seating of Red China...
...Pearson recommendations have long been awaited, especially by the Nixon Administration. In his campaign, Nixon seemed to hint at a further cutback, stressing that "we are spread far too thin in too many countries." He has also said that he likes aid that "aids the U.S.A.," suggesting the use of assistance as a political tool...
Such an approach does not always pay off, at least not to the degree of the 'postwar Marshall Plan in Europe. "Aid for development," says the Pearson report, "does not usually buy dependable friends." Then why give at all? On the simplest level, the report stated, "it is only right for those who have to share with those who have not." Then again, the report notes, "we live in a village world," where concern with problems at home and abroad is becoming "a political and social imperative." Strongest of all is the pragmatic argument that aid-fostered development will...