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Good Intentions, Eberstadt, in commentary (June 1985),
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For more than a decade now, America's foreign aid policies have cost the taxpayers much, but accomplished little.
So argues Eberstadt, a Harvard population researcher. A "perversion of foreign aid" has occurred not because Americans are stingy with their wealth or lack compassion for the world's poor. Rather, a pro- gram once aimed at Third World economic development...