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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... technical deci- sions embodied in the design of a project . Even though he might have been willing to fight for an issue with an outside agency - or even though he might have known that prevailing moods had changed - it was difficult ...
... technical deci- sions embodied in the design of a project . Even though he might have been willing to fight for an issue with an outside agency - or even though he might have known that prevailing moods had changed - it was difficult ...
Page 66
... technical point of view - the 125 megawatts or the 250 megawatts , the turbines manufactured in Brazil or those made abroad ? As can be gathered from the story , a respectable technical defense could be made for both decisions in both ...
... technical point of view - the 125 megawatts or the 250 megawatts , the turbines manufactured in Brazil or those made abroad ? As can be gathered from the story , a respectable technical defense could be made for both decisions in both ...
Page 113
... technical knowledge , re- cruitment of career managerial and operating personnel , and technical assistance ac- tivities with reasonably assured pay - offs . AID has been weakest , therefore , in sponsor- ing coherent and cumulative ...
... technical knowledge , re- cruitment of career managerial and operating personnel , and technical assistance ac- tivities with reasonably assured pay - offs . AID has been weakest , therefore , in sponsor- ing coherent and cumulative ...
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