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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... experience to concretize and enrich the argument and to lead the reader up to propositions that might otherwise seem preposterous . Since my original experience with AID , its appropriations and personnel have been on the wane , while ...
... experience to concretize and enrich the argument and to lead the reader up to propositions that might otherwise seem preposterous . Since my original experience with AID , its appropriations and personnel have been on the wane , while ...
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... experience within government will be sparse , and the capacity of other government entities to carry out their normal watchdog functions will be meagerly developed . The routine re- sponse as a form of bureaucratic action will not work ...
... experience within government will be sparse , and the capacity of other government entities to carry out their normal watchdog functions will be meagerly developed . The routine re- sponse as a form of bureaucratic action will not work ...
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... experienced people fast and at the same time be free of the Civil - Service - type employment obligations to them.19 In 1963 ... experience merited . People tended to find their levels on their own - without as much resorting to formal ...
... experienced people fast and at the same time be free of the Civil - Service - type employment obligations to them.19 In 1963 ... experience merited . People tended to find their levels on their own - without as much resorting to formal ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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