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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... considerable responsibility assumed by subordinates . The envi- ronment of AID fits this organizational description well . The agency's geographical dispersion and small field missions required a decen- tralized structure with considerable ...
... considerable responsibility assumed by subordinates . The envi- ronment of AID fits this organizational description well . The agency's geographical dispersion and small field missions required a decen- tralized structure with considerable ...
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... considerable discretion in the exercise of its responsibilities because the severity of balance of payments problems varied and the conditions under which local - cost financing was per- missible left considerable room for ...
... considerable discretion in the exercise of its responsibilities because the severity of balance of payments problems varied and the conditions under which local - cost financing was per- missible left considerable room for ...
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... considerable local expenditure generated by such projects regardless of how many orders are lost to imports . Hence the manufacturers ' association is willing to give in on some items , allowing them to be imported and thus seeming to ...
... considerable local expenditure generated by such projects regardless of how many orders are lost to imports . Hence the manufacturers ' association is willing to give in on some items , allowing them to be imported and thus seeming to ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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