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 77
... decision to favor capital - using choices . The labor - using alterna- tives were not passed over purposely . They simply were not relevant to the decisions of donor and recipient about how to put together a financeable project or ...
... decision to favor capital - using choices . The labor - using alterna- tives were not passed over purposely . They simply were not relevant to the decisions of donor and recipient about how to put together a financeable project or ...
Page 87
... decisions will be influenced by that sense of scarcity . The activities , concerns , and discussions taking place within the donor organiza- tion , one would think , would revolve around decisions relating to the best criteria for ...
... decisions will be influenced by that sense of scarcity . The activities , concerns , and discussions taking place within the donor organiza- tion , one would think , would revolve around decisions relating to the best criteria for ...
Page 95
... decisions already taken , or is not allowed to focus on the relevant alternatives , and hence almost always comes out in favor of the project in hand . As a participant in Pakistani development decisions wrote : " First the technical ...
... decisions already taken , or is not allowed to focus on the relevant alternatives , and hence almost always comes out in favor of the project in hand . As a participant in Pakistani development decisions wrote : " First the technical ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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