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20141014105658.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780231704168 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
ACKU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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a-af--- |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
HC417. |
| Item number |
R635 2013 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Robinson, Paul, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1966-. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Aiding Afghanistan : |
| Remainder of title |
a history of Soviet assistance to a developing country / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Paul Robinson & Jay Dixon. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Columbia University Press, |
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©2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 226 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Contents: List of tables and figures—Acknowledgments—Notes on style—1. Introduction—2. Models of development and Soviet theories—3. Soviet assistance to Afghanistan prior to 1979—4. Soviet assistance to Afghanistan : 1979-86—5. Soviet assistance to Afghanistan : 1987-91—6. Conclusion—Notes—Bibliography—Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Abstract: For close to sixty years Afghanistan was one of the largest recipients of foreign development aid and yet it remains one of the poorest countries on the planet. The Soviet Union provided Afghanistan with large-scale economic and technical assistance for nearly twenty-five years before invading in 1979 and then increased the volume of assistance even further during the 1980s in an effort to prop up the government and undermine the anti-Soviet insurgency. None of this aid made any lasting difference to Afghan poverty. As in so many other countries, foreign aid did not promote economic growth. Using unexplored Russian sources, this book describes and analyses the economic and technical assistance programs run by the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s through to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and places them in the context of both Soviet-era development theories and more recent ideas about the role of institutions in fostering economic growth. In some respects Soviet development theorists were actually ahead of their contemporary Western counterparts in realising the centrality of institution-building, but they proved unable to translate their theories into practical solutions. The reasons why their assistance programs failed so completely in Afghanistan remain compellingly relevant today. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Economic assistance, Soviet |
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Afghanistan |
| General subdivision |
History |
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20th century. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Economic development |
| Chronological subdivision |
Afghanistan |
| Geographic subdivision |
History |
| General subdivision |
20th century. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Economic assistance, Soviet. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Economic development. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
International economic relations. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Afghanistan. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Afghanistan |
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Foreign economic relations |
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Soviet Union. |
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Soviet Union |
| General subdivision |
Foreign economic relations |
| Geographic subdivision |
Afghanistan. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Dixon, Jay, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1970-. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Monograph |
| Call number prefix |
HC417.R635 2013 |