ABSTRACT
The economic analysis sheds light on how the main elements of the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) contributed to US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) performance and offers suggestions on additional dimensions to be considered in applying the CDF. Yet the central feature of Korean development planning during its high-growth period was not its comprehensiveness, but its focus. Always implemented comparison suggests that the seriousness of purpose of the government in implementing its development planning may be more important than the quality or comprehensiveness of the plan itself. Ownership of the country's policy framework was unambiguously Korean for most of the period of US assistance. A program funded by USAID in West Africa and carried out primarily by the US Centers for Disease Control developed the techniques that made rapid elimination possible. The result was a substantial reduction in rural inequality. In 1950-1953 the country was devastated by the war with the People's Republic of Korea.
