ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the management of US Foreign Economic Assistance (USFEA) and illustrates how management has responded to the interaction of US interests and domestic concerns developing countries and internal agency preoccupations. It covers the period from the end of the Marshall Plan and the Economic Cooperation Administration in 1952 through 2006. The chapter addresses changing programs and processes of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), an agency that has had external stability but much internal change. The USFEA program in Brazil was a centerpiece in the Alliance for Progress. In the mid-1960s, the program provided some $2 billion of assistance, or about $200 million a year. The New Directions initiative also led to important changes in the way USAID managed programming procedures. The formation of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and its amendments took place in a changing international setting of developing countries.
