The NGO CARE and Food Aid from America, 1945-80 : 'Showered with Kindness'?
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TextSeries: Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (334 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781526117229
- 361.77097309045
Cover -- The NGO CARE and food aid from America, 1945-80 -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Setting up a non-profit enterprise (1945-47) -- 2 From Europe to Asia and beyond (1948-55) -- 3 In search of a new mission in Korea -- 4 New cooperative horizons (1955-61) -- 5 Food aid and private-public cooperation in Egypt -- 6 From American relief to international development cooperation (1961-68) -- 7 CARE and the Peace Corps -- 8 ward multinational enterprise (1969-80) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book on the humanitarian NGO CARE offers a unique historical insight into the successes and crises of one of the major private humanitarian players throughout the second half of the 20th century.
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