ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at countries that will require development assistance in the year 2000. In India, there is a large surplus of trained professionals; in China, there is growing evidence the country can learn from the West without importing large cadres of technical assistance personnel. Policy makers, academics, and development theorists in both China and India have expressed interest in discussing economic development problems with their counterparts in western nations. Regarding other Asian recipients of foreign aid the concerns of western donors should be different. Other Asian nations are experiencing political turmoil, such as Afghanistan with the Russian occupation, that make it extremely difficult from the perspective of many western donors, to determine what a sensible assistance program might be. Donors have focused development assistance on agriculture in rural areas. The development focus on rural areas in Africa has not slowed the rate of urban migration.
