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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... entities relates to the unusually large share of its work that was contributed by its beneficiary , the recipient - country borrower institu- tion . The recipient was partially responsible for designing the pro- jects to be financed ...
... entities relates to the unusually large share of its work that was contributed by its beneficiary , the recipient - country borrower institu- tion . The recipient was partially responsible for designing the pro- jects to be financed ...
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... entities singled out various factors . GAO audit reports , congressional in- quiries , hearings , and debates on appropriations chronicled items such as inefficiency , lack of proper auditing , misspending of funds , incompetence ...
... entities singled out various factors . GAO audit reports , congressional in- quiries , hearings , and debates on appropriations chronicled items such as inefficiency , lack of proper auditing , misspending of funds , incompetence ...
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... entities either amounts to a post hoc rationalization of decisions already taken , or is not allowed to focus on the ... entities carrying out the task , and the constraints within which these entities must work . Thoroughness in this ...
... entities either amounts to a post hoc rationalization of decisions already taken , or is not allowed to focus on the ... entities carrying out the task , and the constraints within which these entities must work . Thoroughness in this ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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