A New Approach in Africa: Analyzing the Effectiveness of United States Foreign Aid on the African Continent and a New Concept for Infrastructure

Abstract

Since the mid 1940's the United States of America has provided over $215 billion dollars to 53 African nations and three regions in foreign aid. Aid is provided to individual African nations to improve stability, quality of life, and to enhance national security of the United States. War, poverty, disease, and human suffering are common throughout Africa and this paper correlates foreign aid and conditions to recipient nations. The concept provided in this paper changes the historical norms of providing foreign aid to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) building regional infrastructure projects that benefit African nations and provide a common goal.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 11, 2017
Accession Number
AD1176566

Entities

People

  • William C. Oren

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Africa
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continents
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dynamics
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economic Development
  • Education
  • Executives
  • Failed States
  • Foreign Aid
  • Geographic Regions
  • Governments
  • Human Development
  • Investments
  • Military Assistance
  • National Security
  • New York
  • North America
  • Petroleum
  • Political Science
  • Quality Of Life
  • Transparencies
  • United Nations
  • United States

Readers

  • Economics
  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
  • Strategic Security Studies