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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... increased use of another . This increased rigorousness , of course , only emphasizes the inapplicability of such criteria to areas outside the domain for which the criteria were devised . The agency , in turn , balked at the ...
... increased use of another . This increased rigorousness , of course , only emphasizes the inapplicability of such criteria to areas outside the domain for which the criteria were devised . The agency , in turn , balked at the ...
Page 91
... increasing that total , be dramatically increased ? This quantitative standard of performance , and the often difficult - to- achieve target figure to which it is related , creates in the donor entities a type of self - pressure toward ...
... increasing that total , be dramatically increased ? This quantitative standard of performance , and the often difficult - to- achieve target figure to which it is related , creates in the donor entities a type of self - pressure toward ...
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... increased rigor in economic analysis and selection of projects . Rigor , then , seems to have become just as much an extension of bureaucratic delay and complexity as a source of improvement of the quality of decisionmaking.20 This ...
... increased rigor in economic analysis and selection of projects . Rigor , then , seems to have become just as much an extension of bureaucratic delay and complexity as a source of improvement of the quality of decisionmaking.20 This ...
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