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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... goals . This uncharacteristic absence of protective concern is perhaps best explained by concluding that the one thing the agency did not have to worry about was the accusation that it was subverting its own goals . Despite all the ...
... goals . This uncharacteristic absence of protective concern is perhaps best explained by concluding that the one thing the agency did not have to worry about was the accusation that it was subverting its own goals . Despite all the ...
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... goals . " Goal displacement usually refers to the substitution of ends by means ; for example , an organization's procedures may be observed so strictly that its stated goals are defeated . In the case of AID , what does the displacing ...
... goals . " Goal displacement usually refers to the substitution of ends by means ; for example , an organization's procedures may be observed so strictly that its stated goals are defeated . In the case of AID , what does the displacing ...
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Judith Tendler. adapting because one's goals had become attached to concerns other than economic development . The organization's goals , in sum , had been overcome by the struggle to survive in a hostile environ- ment.21 THE WRITTEN ...
Judith Tendler. adapting because one's goals had become attached to concerns other than economic development . The organization's goals , in sum , had been overcome by the struggle to survive in a hostile environ- ment.21 THE WRITTEN ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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