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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... Foreign Service Officers , or even the FSR officers of the State Department . 13 Moreover , unlike the Foreign Service Officer , the FSR officer was not required to take rigorous entrance exams . The orientation of the foreign aid ...
... Foreign Service Officers , or even the FSR officers of the State Department . 13 Moreover , unlike the Foreign Service Officer , the FSR officer was not required to take rigorous entrance exams . The orientation of the foreign aid ...
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... Foreign Service recommended that some of its " creativity " problems be remedied by modifying the recruitment system in a way that made it look more like AID's tempo- rary foreign service . The State Department Task Force on the Stimula ...
... Foreign Service recommended that some of its " creativity " problems be remedied by modifying the recruitment system in a way that made it look more like AID's tempo- rary foreign service . The State Department Task Force on the Stimula ...
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... Foreign Service Officers in the field . Foreign Service writing was also characterized by forced restraint and veiled lan- guage . Feared repercussion was due in this case to inaccurate analysis or prediction , or too - strongly worded ...
... Foreign Service Officers in the field . Foreign Service writing was also characterized by forced restraint and veiled lan- guage . Feared repercussion was due in this case to inaccurate analysis or prediction , or too - strongly worded ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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