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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... environment . The faces of AID probably looked about the same as those of any large , home - based federal bureaucracy . It was the world they had to work with that made them timid . 9 -J The agency's decentralized structure and ...
... environment . The faces of AID probably looked about the same as those of any large , home - based federal bureaucracy . It was the world they had to work with that made them timid . 9 -J The agency's decentralized structure and ...
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... environment , or at least one in which friendli- ness was not required for the proper execution of an assignment . The PX was meant not only to provide certain food , drug , and household items that were not available in the host ...
... environment , or at least one in which friendli- ness was not required for the proper execution of an assignment . The PX was meant not only to provide certain food , drug , and household items that were not available in the host ...
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... environment were best handled by a decentralized organiza- tion with less formal procedures , substantial points of contact with the environment , the possession of discretionary power by those having such contact , and an ability on ...
... environment were best handled by a decentralized organiza- tion with less formal procedures , substantial points of contact with the environment , the possession of discretionary power by those having such contact , and an ability on ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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