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3 entries tagged Development.

Organizations (1)

  • AIA The American International Association for Economic and Social Development (AIA) was Nelson Rockefeller's nonprofit arm for development programs in Latin America, operating in Brazil and Venezuela from 1946 through the 1960s as a complement to his for-profit IBEC.

Programs (2)

  • Alliance for Progress The Alliance for Progress was Kennedy's 1961 foreign aid and development program for Latin America, promising $20 billion over ten years for social reform and economic development, but largely captured in implementation by the military-counterinsurgency apparatus and business interests.
  • Point Four Program President Truman's Point Four Program (1949) was the first U.S. foreign technical assistance program aimed at the developing world, providing the institutional template that Nelson Rockefeller later built on in his International Development Advisory Board proposals.