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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... agency , then , could not honestly promise a long - term career to its job applicants . Unlike the State Department ... agency's overseas staff ( 1800 out of 3300 Foreign Service Reserve positions ) had limited - tenure ap- pointments ...
... agency , then , could not honestly promise a long - term career to its job applicants . Unlike the State Department ... agency's overseas staff ( 1800 out of 3300 Foreign Service Reserve positions ) had limited - tenure ap- pointments ...
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... agency complained to Congress , " creates considerable country fric- tion , discourages innovation and penalizes justifiable risk - taking by AID ; [ it ] holds the Agency to a publicly damaging standard of accountability . " 7 Another ...
... agency complained to Congress , " creates considerable country fric- tion , discourages innovation and penalizes justifiable risk - taking by AID ; [ it ] holds the Agency to a publicly damaging standard of accountability . " 7 Another ...
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... agency itself . The criticism of AID emanating from other government entities singled out various factors . GAO audit reports , congressional in- quiries , hearings , and debates on appropriations chronicled items such as inefficiency ...
... agency itself . The criticism of AID emanating from other government entities singled out various factors . GAO audit reports , congressional in- quiries , hearings , and debates on appropriations chronicled items such as inefficiency ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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