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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... behavior — and it may explain to a certain extent why the agency was not blessed with more of such behavior . Security is necessary to ensure the potential experimenter that he can take unpopular stands , sometimes fail , and go out on ...
... behavior — and it may explain to a certain extent why the agency was not blessed with more of such behavior . Security is necessary to ensure the potential experimenter that he can take unpopular stands , sometimes fail , and go out on ...
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... behavior at the outpost level . Moreover , the preoc- cupation of the Washington staff with its interagency struggles cut deeply into the time it had to work on substantive policy problems . Hence Washington was not completely free to ...
... behavior at the outpost level . Moreover , the preoc- cupation of the Washington staff with its interagency struggles cut deeply into the time it had to work on substantive policy problems . Hence Washington was not completely free to ...
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... behavior as competent behavior " ( Chris Argyris , " Some Causes of Organizational Ineffectiveness within the Department of State , " Center for International Systems Research , Occasional Paper no . 2 [ Washington , D.C .: Department ...
... behavior as competent behavior " ( Chris Argyris , " Some Causes of Organizational Ineffectiveness within the Department of State , " Center for International Systems Research , Occasional Paper no . 2 [ Washington , D.C .: Department ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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