Inside Foreign AidJohns Hopkins University Press, 1975 - 140 pages Monograph on development aid, with special reference to the role of USA aid programmes and development projects - shows how organizational environment and behaviour determine many of the shortcomings of both bilateral aid (e.g. 'Aid') and multilateral aid (e.g. World Bank, IDB, UNDP (role of UN). Bibliography pp. 129 to 135 and references. |
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... Washington officialdom that the constraining entity was cur- rently in a more lenient mood . Although the Washington staff attemp- ted to maintain a continuous flow of current information to the mis- sions , it was difficult to prevent ...
... Washington officialdom that the constraining entity was cur- rently in a more lenient mood . Although the Washington staff attemp- ted to maintain a continuous flow of current information to the mis- sions , it was difficult to prevent ...
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... Washington not as their harassed ally , manning the front lines of defense against the rest of government , but as one of their harassers . Washington , in turn , often talked of a mission as if it were a stum- bling , wayward lamb ...
... Washington not as their harassed ally , manning the front lines of defense against the rest of government , but as one of their harassers . Washington , in turn , often talked of a mission as if it were a stum- bling , wayward lamb ...
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... Washington strategically close to the June 30 deadline . A " desperate " Washington might give " less of a hard time " when reviewing the loan paper and asking for changes , because of the scarcity of staff review time caused by the ...
... Washington strategically close to the June 30 deadline . A " desperate " Washington might give " less of a hard time " when reviewing the loan paper and asking for changes , because of the scarcity of staff review time caused by the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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