AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN PAINFUL DISILLUSIONING: A PERSONAL ESSAY

During the decades of the 1960s and 1970s the author was an active participant in a great noble cause. Massive hunger moving into famine condition was put to rest. Millions upon millions of lives were preserved along with food security advanced for the next three or so decades. In the initial decade...

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Published inJournal of third world studies Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 11 - 37
Main Author Jones, Garth N.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Americus Association of Third World Studies, Inc 01.10.2013
University Press of Florida
Subjects
Charities
Decades
Famine
Food
Food aid
Food Security
Food supply
Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarianism
Hunger
Law
Pakistan
Public law
Ships
U.S.A
United States of America
United States > US
Pakistan
India
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Summary:During the decades of the 1960s and 1970s the author was an active participant in a great noble cause. Massive hunger moving into famine condition was put to rest. Millions upon millions of lives were preserved along with food security advanced for the next three or so decades. In the initial decade of this humanitarian and development undertaking one out of every fifteen Pakistanis enjoyed full stomachs because of US public Law 480 Food Aid. As of winter 2013, fewer than 12% of Pakistanis held a favorable view of the US. Public Law 480 initiative began in 1947 when Pakistan was on the verge of mass famine. For some three decades 1954 to 1984 in the neighborhood of one out of every fifteen Pakistanis had at least one full meal a day because of the generosity of US food aid. The US effort to avoid world-wide famine required assembling more cargo ships than those employed in the 1944 D day operation.
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