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Book ReviewsNeil H. Jacoby, U.S. Aid to Taiwan, Frederick A. Praeger, 364 pages plus XVIII, 1966, $ 8.50 (U.S.A.) SAGE Publications, Inc.1969DOI: 10.1177/002071526901000312 Richard Hamilton York University Canada From 1951 to 1965 the United States government poured economic aid into Taiwan as fast as projects could be designed to absorb it productively. During that period veirtually every innovation adopted by American foreign aid administrators was tried out in Taiwan. When the Agency for International Development (AID) with drew its Mission from the Chinese Republic in 1965 it did so with full expectation that henceforth Taiwan could be its own efforts maintain a rate of growth which had averaged 7.6% per year since 1951, in spite of a huge military establishment which at that time absorbed about 9% of the island's G.N.P. About the time the Mission was preparing to leave, AID requested Professor Neil H. Jacoby, Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of California at Los Angeles, and a member of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers from 1953 to 1955 to make an evaluation of the United States aid program in Taiwan. In U.S. Aid to Taiwan, a revision of his report to AID,