Word: self-help
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...Senate committee declared Puerto Rico's problems "unsolvable." The Caribbean island had a rapidly expanding population, few natural resources, hardly any industry, and chronic unemployment that sometimes ran to one-third of the labor force. In 1942, a rising young politician named Luis Munoz Marin organized a self-help program called Operation Bootstrap; a few years later, as Governor, he invited U.S. companies south, offering them political stability plus wide tax advantages and a vast reservoir of eager-to-learn labor. Ever since, Puerto Rico's economy has been one long, steady success story...
...said that the increased earning power of Harvard students and the rise in available term-time employment made it possible for the Financial Aid office to gradually increase this "self-help" gap. Since 1950 the gap has risen from $450 to the present...
...Resurrection of cooperative communities, based on the old Inca empire system, with internal self-help programs to encourage peasants to help themselves...
...mule team; ever since, he has talked endlessly of the riches that lie away from the sea, beyond the Andes. To open up the area to farmers and livestock producers, he talks of a new $216 million highway with almost mystical fervor. Another ambition is to start communal self-help programs, following a pattern set back in the old Inca empire days...
...apply stricter standards of selectivity and self-help in aiding developing countries." As an example of progress, he said that only 20 nations now get 80% of all development aid and that 60% of it is laid out in the form of repayable loans rather than outright grants. Aid, he said, must be used "as a catalyst for progress and not as a handout...