The Price of Aid

This study of US and Soviet aid efforts in India during the Cold War “makes a major contribution towards a necessary discussion of the politics of aid” ( Times Higher Education ). Debates over foreign aid are often strangely ahistorical. Economists argue about how to make aid work while critics bemoan money wasted on corruption, ignoring the fundamentally political character of aid.  The Price of Aid  turns the standard debate on its head. By exposing the geopolitical calculus underpin