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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... career to its job applicants . Unlike the State Department , it was not interested in entrance exams . Whereas the separateness of the State Depart- ment's Foreign Service personnel system was meant to serve the purpose of creating an ...
... career to its job applicants . Unlike the State Department , it was not interested in entrance exams . Whereas the separateness of the State Depart- ment's Foreign Service personnel system was meant to serve the purpose of creating an ...
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... careers . " 26 An article in the journal of the Foreign Service Officer's Association recommended the end of the FSO career service and its replacement with the recruit- ment of experienced professionals.27 In sum , the State ...
... careers . " 26 An article in the journal of the Foreign Service Officer's Association recommended the end of the FSO career service and its replacement with the recruit- ment of experienced professionals.27 In sum , the State ...
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... career stability was probably not a desirable feature for the per- sonnel system of an organization carrying out a task like development assistance : The requirements of AID's program preclude a permanent career service because the ...
... career stability was probably not a desirable feature for the per- sonnel system of an organization carrying out a task like development assistance : The requirements of AID's program preclude a permanent career service because the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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