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082			_a309.223 _bPER
100	1		_aPerloff, Harvey S.
245	1	0	_aAlliance for progress : _ba social invention in the making /
260			_aBaltimore ; _aLondon : _bPublished for Resources for the Future by Johns Hopkins Press, _cc1969.
300			_axvi, 253 p. ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical footnotes and index.
520			_aThis book reviews the first eight years (1961-68) of the Alliance for Progress, providing a description of its institutional development and a critical analysis of its activities. It provides an account of the formation and evolution of the institutional machinery, the author having been closely involved in the process. Based on the Alliance for Progress ratified by the charter of Punta del Este in 1961, the Latin American countries committed themselves to a great developmental effort. Each country was to aim at a minimum annual growth rate of at least 2-% per capita; major improvements in housing, public health and education were to increase life expectancy by five years and wipe out illiteracy; price-levels were to be stabilised, tax systems were to be made more efficient and equitable, and regional economic integration was to be pushed forward. The United States Government was to provide " a major part " of the $20 billions of external aid which was expected to be required during 1961-71 to make the programme possible, partly through its own Agency for International Development, partly through the Inter-American Development Bank and other institutions. The project was, in effect, a Marshall plan for Latin America; it was President Kennedy who named it " the Alliance for Progress."
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591			_aLoans
650			_aEconomic assistance.
710	2		_aResources for the Future.
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
949			_a309.223 PER
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