Study On American Foreign Economic Aid After World War

The United States is the first country to carry out foreign economic aid,and it offered most, and the coverage is the largest. As early as during the second world war, the United States started foreign economic aid, but the real large-scale foreign economic aid combined with the country’s foreign policy is started after the second world war.After the second world war, the economy of the U.A. explosed, and the economic was strong. While the Europe was in ruins. At the same time, after the war, the international situation changed, eastern Europe, China and some other third world countries took to the socialist road after independence,headed by the United States and the Soviet union formed two opposing camps.With the emergence of the cold war situation after the war, the United States wanted to compete with the Soviet union, maintain the status of world hegemony, and also in order to seek more interests of the state, he began a large-scale foreign economic aid. Since then, as the change of international environment, U.S. foreign economic aid strategy were also adjusted, aid object were also changed accordingly. Through decades of development, U.S.foreign economic aid has formed a relatively complete system with its own characteristics.U.S. foreign economic aid not only brought benefits to the recipient countries, but also led to the development of its economy. At the same time, it promoted the American values and culture, improve America’s international image and influence.As an important content in today’s international economic relations,foreign economic aid became one of the important tools of foreign policy in the major countries. In recent years, with the development of economy, and the increase of the economic strength, as an important member of the international community, China is continuing to speed up development of its economy. At the same time, China also must carry out foreign economic aid. In reality,however, China’s foreign aid is still not perfect in many places. American foreign economic assistance not only has perfect laws and regulations, but also has a set of relatively perfect organization system and decision-making mechanism, so there is a lot to learn from.This article analyzes its strategic target and its influencing factors of foreign economic aid with the introduction of development of American foreign economic aid and its development characteristics. And through the introduction of relevant legislation of foreign economic aid, organization management system and decision-making procedures, U.S. foreign economic aid results and the problems still exist are summarized. And according to the present problems of China foreign economic aid, the mature experiences of America, put forward the development suggestions on China’s foreign economic aid.