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- Title
Towards global equilibrium: American foundations and Indian modernization, 1950s to 1970s.
- Authors
Unger, Corinna R.
- Abstract
This article studies the activities of American philanthropic foundations in India between the 1950s and 1970s. It discusses why private institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation felt committed to responding to problems of hunger and population growth abroad and how they managed to establish themselves as leaders in the development aid arena. Instead of considering the foundations as handmaidens of US national strategic interests shaped by the Cold War, the article argues that they should be understood as highly flexible transnational agents who, in an ambitious combination of philanthropic motives, institutional interests, and trust in the power of science, diagnosed political problems and developed methods to overcome them in order to reduce global inequality.
- Subjects
INDIA; UNITED States; INTERNATIONAL relations, 1945-1989; CHARITABLE uses, trusts, &; foundations; ROCKEFELLER Foundation; FORD Foundation; FOREIGN aid (American); HISTORY of economic development; INTERNATIONAL cooperation; INDIAN economy, 1947-; INDIA-United States relations; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Global History, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 1, p121
- ISSN
1740-0228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1740022811000076