摘要：u nited States foreign aid was initially intended as a temporary program, setting countries on the path to self-sustaining growth. It has been extraordinarily successful by that standard. Europe and Japan graduated quickly, after massive infusions of capital, food, and technical assistance. Essentially all of Asia, some three billion people, has now attained unprecedented growth rates. It has done so with relatively more technical assistance, over a far longer period of time, than Europe and Japan, and with relatively smaller concessional capital infusions
