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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Page 43
... action groups , or seeking alliances with sympathetic groups inside the bureaucracy . He accepted something unacceptable as the price of getting foreign assistance , and grumbled resentfully . The agency was deprived , in other words ...
... action groups , or seeking alliances with sympathetic groups inside the bureaucracy . He accepted something unacceptable as the price of getting foreign assistance , and grumbled resentfully . The agency was deprived , in other words ...
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... ACTION : SOME EXAMPLES The type of organizational behavior I want to illustrate is quite elusive . Development assistance institutions do not deliberately pur- sue import - maximization policies or favor large projects . To the con ...
... ACTION : SOME EXAMPLES The type of organizational behavior I want to illustrate is quite elusive . Development assistance institutions do not deliberately pur- sue import - maximization policies or favor large projects . To the con ...
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... action tend to take place behind closed doors and at very low levels of the decisionmaking structure , as illustrated by the turbine - generator story of the last chapter . In other words , an action taken on the grounds of foreign ...
... action tend to take place behind closed doors and at very low levels of the decisionmaking structure , as illustrated by the turbine - generator story of the last chapter . In other words , an action taken on the grounds of foreign ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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