San Antonio College Library

Half a trillion dollars have been spent on international aid in the last 50 years. It's an industry that's unquestionable and supported by the world's biggest celebrities including Bono, Bob Geldof and Angelina Jolie. But recently an increasing number of experts have begun to criticize the giving game. This documentary dissects the aid industry and reveals some difficult home truths about "Aid as Business" in the developing world. Portions in English...

"Today the United States faces a security paradox. On the one hand, the U.S. military is unrivaled in size, strength, capacity, and budget; on the other hand, the global operating environment of the 21st century is diffuse and complex, and threats are often asymmetric and transnational. Such challenges stipulate that no single nation, regardless of its traditional military might, can completely address its security objectives alone. Developing a network...

This book is about the problems of organization and reorganization as much as it is about the problems of assisting third-world development, and it is a case study in flawed organizational reform as much as a critique of the way development assistance is managed.--[book jacket].

In this important study, Chester Pach traces the emergence of military assistance as a major instrument of contemporary American foreign policy. During the early Cold War, arms aid grew from a few country and regional programs into a world-wide effort with an annual cost of more than $1 billion. Pach analyzes the Truman administration's increasing reliance on arms aid - for Latin America, Greece and Turkey, China, and Western Europe - to contain Communist...

In Ethiopia, over a quarter of the population survives on less than two dollars a day. International organizations and foreign governments provide funds to address the rampant poverty in this country and others, but little data is available to assess the effectiveness of such programs. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one nonprofit's rigorous, research-driven approach to aid.

Describes the author's experiences as a doctor for Doctors Without Borders in countries such as Somalia, Afghanistan, and Rwanda; the conditions he witnessed; and the political roadblocks that prevented aid from reaching patients.